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inevitable.
9. Under these circumstances, I regard
the present Ordinance as decidedly a step
in the right direction and the power it entrusts to Ludicial Officers will, I _
think, if exercised with discretion be found entirely beneficial. I have accordingly no hesitation in recommending it for
the sanction of
Her Majesty.
I have to.
pliqued) Richard Graves Macdonnell,
Governor
Extract from deslated 1.114 17 25th June
1845 by Lord Stanley
on an Ordinance
for the suppression of Trink Society, (No 1 of 1845.).
"An indelible mark impresed
the cheek
of a
a Criminal, even if
unattended by pain is get evidently objectionable as fastening
the
delinquent a stiqua from which he could never be rescued by
any future
future course of good conduct. him to permanent
It would consign