CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7] — Page 351

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Wlupping is authored wherever

Authonied by

the Imperial Acts but in Law 7 (Lameny &) it is authorised in

Cases in which it is not authorised

wkeily

in the Imperial Acts but it is omitter

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in other cases in which it would seem

Equally reasonable to have allowest it

"In Law 4 § 64 the count is not empowered as in the conserponding section (76) of the Imperial Act to name the number of stones and the instrumentl in cases of whiffing. This omission Maybe accidental no it is not malle in Laws 7 and 8

77

Law 5 agcees with the consesponding Clauser dispersed through the Imperial

Ali

347

The draft of a desfalch by

Zou about whipping is marked in the Honghong bound volume 3 of 1862

N.B. us to number of lashes

Inflicted in

England &

The Acts of 24225 Vic

, as also the Colonial Law Auttionise the cohiffering

only of males under sixteen

By 25×25 he. C18

6 Vic.C18 (in casco

of summary couniction) the wheffing of offenders under fourtun is limited to 12 stroker with a brich rod. In other

cases the magistrate is left to name the number of strokes and the instrument

By the antigacotting act

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