CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9] — Page 147

despatch what I hat

abready admitted in mine. my objection, as I think,

You ought to have seen,

has not to the mere

lxistence

of

the power

but to the unlimited

Herms

in which it is

"conferred. I am quite

aware that prompt and real punishments

necessary for

keeping

in order ench

a population as zou

describe. But it is

also

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also evident that a

European hragistrate who

is at liberty to order

flogging in any

case

Recond conviction for

&

mis demeanour is under

the temptation to inflict that punishment, and

will probably be supposed

inconsideratel

to

inflict it, or may July Off hand may,

and

that this temptation

increased by

Circumstaxus

the

very

difficulties which render the infliction of these thank

punishments