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Ordinance 8 of 1876.
The omission of the provision authorizing the flogging of convicts returned for certain offences after return which was contained in sec. 11 of Ord. 8 of 1876.
The provision for punishing vagrancy by flogging.
He took away from the magistracy the power they had under Ordinance 8 of 1876 to award deportation as a judicial sentence and placing the discretionary power to order deportation in all such cases in the hands of the Governor.
The Ordinance 8 of 1876 retains for the Executive special power of banishing applicable to all cases for which deportation might have been ordered by judicial sentence or otherwise under 8 of 1876.
Signed: Edward J. Arralley, Attorney General, October 11th 188...