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practiced in the Solong. These punishments

regulated number of blows with.

the lose of the

were, a

a cane,

and

of the tail. or in the

exporure collar, as well as

island.

queue,

or wooden-

canque expulsion from the

The destitute and hardened offenders with whom the Law of this fotony

the

while fines

has had to deal were dispored to ridicule

easy punishments to which they might be subjected by English_law or custom, were out of the question from those who possessed nothing, Long imprisonments subjected the Government.

expence, and left the culprit - no better than they found him. It

to severe

therefore

seemed necessary to apply

to

them those penalties to which they had

always been accustomed, and to

them by the penal Code

govern

of China;

This

This

was

• found.

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to answer so well.

in practice, that it has been continued by the 3rd clause of Ordinance. N. 15, of 18lile, for the constitution of a supreme furt in the fotony, by which it is enacted. "that in all criminal proceedings arising

or

being within the jurisdiction of the said fourt, where the party or parties proceeded- against be of fhinese nigin=

or extraction, then and in

every

such

case it shall be lawful for the said-

fourt in its diceretion to

punish the offender or offenders according to the laws of China . "

I have the honor to be, With the highest-respect,

Your Lordship's,

Most obedient

Numin Server +

Ndani