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the title and preamble of the draft Ordinance. I proposed for dealing with the subject of flogging and branding.
But whilst I therefore made this verbal alteration, I beg leave to point out that Your Lordship was under a misconception in thinking that the word "flogging" does not occur in any of the enactments the draft Ordinance proposed to repeal. For instance, in the same despatch, Your Lordship expresses the opinion that it is well to retain in the schedule of repeals the whole of Ordinance 8 of 1876. But Section XI of that statute authorizes a convicted deportée convicted of "mischievous crime" to be once or twice publicly or privately flogged with not more than thirty-six lashes on each occasion.
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The statute against which the proposed draft Ordinance was mainly directed is Ordinance 4 of 1872 which is now to be repealed. Your Lordship will see that in the collection of Hong Kong Statutes, Volume 2, this Ordinance is headed "Branding and Flogging", and that the word occurs in Clause II of the preamble and in Section IX of Ordinance 7 of 1868.
4. The schedule proposes to repeal