CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9] — Page 133

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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

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brutal

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a

depraved Kind

where

some special

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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