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I "must be limited to crimes " brutal and depraved kind

I

"cases where some

of a

or to

- special reason

" can be alleged for resorting to that "mode of punishment. _ how robbery from the person appears to

to come within the latter alternative.

and I should suggest that

a

: short Draft Ordinance should be framed but that as its object

is

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nearly

a

repetition of a clause which His

His Grace has already objected to and which has been actually repeated I recommend that it be submitted to the Colonial

Office for approval on principle

ere it be submitted to the Legislative

Council

The

Acting Chief Justice, after referring to what he designates

the backward state in which

the Colony stands with respect

Cit

to the adoption of the Criminal Code of England, proposes general enactment introducing the whole of the Criminal

Code

existing in England

(so far as applicable to this Colony) and providing that

every succeeding alteration in the Law as made in the Imperial Parliament (with an like saving clause) should