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to undergo imprisonment
in the Colonial Gaol
are not entitled to the
benefit of the Mark system:
2.
arose last. A similar question during the course
of year respecting prisoners sentenced by the Supreme
Court of China and Japan,
Your Lordship's
and in
24 despatch W: 302 of 15th December, qu
1890, you stated what it
had been proposed to do
in respect of such prisoners.
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3.
There appears to have been a general impression here that the mark system
cannot be applied to Naval or Military prisoners under
sentences of Courts Martial, but I have been unable to
find any instructions on the subject.
4.
I addressed Major-General Barker and
Commodore Church on this point; and they both
inform me that they do