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vernors per narko arose out of a one you you well brought before the Legislative Council, that of Mok a Rivai.
Atis Exceller (ng mentioned) that Mok a kivai, who died of phthisis, had been four times flogged in back, by order of the acting Superintendent, for prison offences, and that an inspection of the Prison Offence book would have enabled a Visiting Justice to see that those four prison punishments had been illegal.
In the Papers laid before the British Parliament last session are the cases of other Chinese prisoners who were illegally flogged in the Victoria Prison by the Superintendent for prison offences during the preceding year.
In July 1876, during the second visit that year to the prison, His Excellency considers that had you looked through the Prison Offence book, you could hardly have failed to notice the illegal floggings that had been so inflicted.
His Excellency certainly considers it to be a part of the duty of a Visiting Justice in Hongkong, as it is elsewhere, to look through the Prison Offence book, and cannot relieve you of that responsibility. Indeed, His Excellency cannot relieve you of that responsibility.
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