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advantage
多
retaining
a practice which has
been abolished in most
parts of H.M's dominion
communion, and which
L.
makes an addition
though
a
small one
to
the number of prisoners.
6. I concur in the
opinion which
you
have expressed, and which is shared by
the majority of the Gaol Commission and by
the Chinese Justices of
the Peace, that it is not
desirable
to resort to
cutting off the
queues
a mode of punishment,
and you could consider
whether it may not be
desirable to alter the
prison regulation on
the subject, so as
to allow the
Chinese sentenced to penal
servitude to be
cut
without
special permission of
the Governor, this being the practice which is
followed in the Straits
Settlements.