Review of the Principal Ordinance
It is now amended mainly in practice and its administration regarding conferring. It goes considerably beyond the
Adi as in J. Junich {ke - to Mukhing offenders under (for indict the offences, other than homicide, this summarily), but this is probably all dealt with by the new districts Act which is not before. It is extraordinary, inconceivable that so much time should lapse before we are put in possession of the statistics of the preceding year. I have called attention to this before.
A senior thinker from the Drafting Committee that the limitation of this section to the schedule has been carefully settled, but I am not surprised if they have overlooked some other misdemeanour for which the stocks are hardly an appropriate punishment. However, they can always amend by adding to the schedule.
The provisions do not appear to call for comment from A to $4.
The best point of training we may have an uneasy feeling that the Magistrates will give effect to the punishment on in ten times able of we shall be.
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Wait a reasonable time for the spitting protest. Chang Seely Is proceeding. It's not much like the effect & number of lashes of whipping, at the end of a year when we do. Do Mike Mr. Risley.
I am not quite clear whether the effect of section 6 (Stocks) is to increase the use of this punishment or diminish it. Can you advise?
Order 13 of 1907 (4043567 and pp. herewith) was passed in order to limit to "offences punishable with imprisonment only" the which use of the stocks as a punishment allowed by sec 87 of the Magistrates Ordinance 1900.
The Draftsman, however, overlooked sec 80 of the then Ordinance of which is magistrates' alternative powers of fine or imprisonment in the case of offences with which they are empowered to deal summarily. They cannot so deal with indictable offences of the grave sort - such Schedule 3 sa of the order.
Consequently, as pointed out in the Annex [Debates p.154] to a large extent the intention of Order 13 of 1907 was defeated, for it would seem that the stocks could be resorted to only in cases of non-indictable offences punishable with imprisonment only, and I should imagine that such offences are few in number.
Sec 5 of the present order is meant to give effect to the real intention of Order 13 of 1907. It is of course subject to sec 80 of the Magistrates Ordinance, and in laying down that the stocks sanction the tie.
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