CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 173

Loot, of public policy, and of merals. To the inflection on the Chivese offertonal chastisement; penalty for the crimes of

As a

wheek they may be convicted,

however

Edo not object. Ibelieve that

with their habits & opinions, no other penishment with be forme adequate to the purpose.

dresatt

them it conveys

Fo

the hume ssbende

of personal degradation.

as it was to Europeans

I

commenced and terminates

in the endurance of a certain amount of paind, which

remembered Kanticipated

with

An

wholesome terror.

Imprisonment, (the only availaste

subititate ) soon ceases to excite

alarm, and

grams and

speedily induces

permanentill

effects, to the sufferers to Lociety at large.

Z

and

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I a Law

authorizing

the peromal chastisement

Chinese, convicted of

of

Crimes, I should therefore

entertain

له الله

objections, proc

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vided that the nature and

the

amount of that punish ment shoulds were carefuly

defined, and that effectual care evere taken to prevent

the use

an

of punishment_

of any instrument of

improper nature, or the

орану

improper ate of any such instrument of a penishment,

as might be Janstored.

For these reasons,

Scannot

sation advise the Leeeen to

om from

somation this Law in its present

from, altho' it will be some

toned by the of revised and

amended ani

the

mannequ