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No. 3.

TRINIDAD.

(Received August 6, 1897.) GOVERNOR SIR H. E. H. JERNINGHAM to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.

SIR, (No. 270.)

Government House, 21st July 1897.

offences. 25th May with regard to the question of flogging as a punishment for crime and for prison I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Circular Despatch of the

with the views expressed in your despatch. during the year 1896, and beg to say that instructions have been given in accordance 2. I enclose a return of corporal punishments inflicted in the prisons of this colony

I have, &c.,

Governor. HUBERT E. H. JERNINGHAM,

Enclosure in No. 3.

RETURN of CORPORAL PUNISHMENTS, TRINIDAD PRISONS, 1896.

No. of Cases. No. of Strokes. Cat or Birch.

Ordered by Supreme Criminal Court for

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Cat

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Wounding.

Ordered by Magistrates for

Larceny of fowl.

Larceny of a donkey.

Larceny of fowls.

Larceny of fowls.

Larceny of cocoa.

Being a rogue and vagabond.

Larceny of canes.

Larceny of cocoa,

Ordered by Inspector of Prisons for

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Attempt to break out of cell and violent conduct.

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Assaulting a warder.

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Persistent idleness.

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Persistent refusal to work.

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Persistent refusal to work.

Escape from wood-cutting gang, Hart's Cut.

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