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prisoners, in fact I' telieve they prefer it to performing hard la-
tour. In the winter months they feel the loss of food in a greater
degree. As far as the iarkenei cell goes I expect that the greater
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nunter of prisoners when at liberty live in places where the light
of the day is very auch obscured.
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(3) Whipping here with the rattan cannot I believe te con-
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paret with floggings at home with the cat eat ninetails.
(4) For otvicus reasms it is always the custon to request
the attendance of the un-official Justice for the week when required
to hear a case which is of too serious a nature for the Superintendent
to dispose of and I think it highly protable that the Justices, most
of whom are business gentlenen, would object to be called upon a3
frequently as it would be necessary to award a punishment of perhaps
A strokes.
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With reference to paragraph 2 of 0.0.Despatch No. 47
of 139 I do not know to what changes in the circumstances of the
case since the existing rule was sanctioned the Secretary of State
refers. That whipping is necesзury here when it would not te in an
English Prison is I sutnit shown by the fact that each Superintendent
bas resorted to it.
I attach a tatie showing the nunter of whippings award-
ed by the several Superintendents for some years tack. In 1394 the
Medical Officer reports that 203 floggings took place in the Gaol tut
of that number only 140 were awarded to my orier and they were chiefly
for refusing to latcur. Twelve cases were beard in conjunction with
the