The Night-pass Ordinance.
They could then put on European dress; the prejudice against having the queue easily cut off or forcibly removed by the Government.
Recovered.
(M) It is meaningless and cannot think of a single instance where it is necessary. We have law effective.
(Signed) Nong Thing, J.B. Ching Quan hi JO.. Chow Peng Choa Chee Boo #1 100 fin Yaen Weir Ayuke • No Kai Joe Jo
Enclosure 1.
Report by the Acting Attorney General.
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The signatories to this letter state that they do not altogether agree with the recommendations of corporal punishment for simple larceny as it would be unnecessarily severe, and they recommend that juvenile offenders should be whipped.
What the Gaol Commission wished to avoid was the sending to prison of persons found guilty of petty thefts. A few days' imprisonment is really no punishment to them; it introduces them to the Gaol and to the criminal class therein contained and can do them no good whatever.
The members of the Commission are of the opinion that a long sentence should not be inflicted for these petty offences and therefore recommended that the offender should be whipped with a rattan and turned away.
If the convicting Magistrate in the case...