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5th clause which authorizes the Magistrates to inflict the punishment of whipping upon second conviction for any misdemeanour and that the crimes for which corporal punichment may
be
inflicted
must be limited to crimes of
a
brutal
to
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a
depraved Kind
where
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reason can be alleged for renting to that mode of punishment- alternative contained
the
the
im the latter part of paragraph in question encourages me to endeavour to show your Grace that there exists in
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this Colony a special necessity for entrusting to Police Magistrates the power of inflicting the punishment of whiping for certain offences, and I would draw your brace's attention
to a report enclosed, received from M. May, the First Police
the subject. Magistrate
M. May has in the Offices of Superintendent of Police and Assistant Magistrate And during
his extended period of service very great opportunities for forming the opinion which The expresses in that Report, and I minst state that
my experience
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