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provided for the Oral examination. prisoners by the presiding Fudge or Magistrate before whom their trial take place, and the latter for the:__ branding and flogging of Criminals in Both Ordinances being
certain cases.
of a special character required Suspending clauses and will not
therefore, come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation has sun
received.
2. The objects sought to be astained by these Ordinances are, I think, sufficiently fully explained in the reports of the Acting Attorney General, and I will only
add a few observations as to the
reasons which induced me to lay them
before the Council.
of
3. To deal first with Ordinance SAG
I have to
1872. Upon this measure
Ou
legislative
remark that it affords
sanction to a system introduced by
myself and pursued by
mi
with
my
departure
year
1845
uniform success until from the Colony in the Shortly after I had taken my leave, the Government, acting upon an
opinion of the Sottorney General
abandoned that
stem without
sy stim
substituting any other in it's place
for the identification of prisoners