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INTERROGATORY XIII.
Can sentences of flogging be pronounced by the courts of justice for offences out of the gaol, and are they, in practice, pronounced and inflicted? And if so, for what offences, and, as far as can be judged, with what effect. State the particulars (so far as they are applicable) as to which inquiry is made under Interrogatory 27--respecting flogging for gaol offences.
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Answer
Sentences of flogging are pronounced in the Court of Justice for offences committed outside of the Jail.
new Ordinance has recently come into operation whereby the Chief Justice is authorized to pass sentences which include flogging of more or less severity especially in of Robbery with violence,
Several cases
of punishment under this Ordinance have lästen felace & as
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punishment is inflided in the street in a district of the town when the worst charades are stnown to congregati I am of grimier that the effect of corporal punishment on the Chinese population has already becond a most delirent pranishment and will become the
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Chinese
of many of the highway men, pirates, burglars to to acho invariably. use violence in carrying out their depredations to entrer leave the Colony or become as honest as they possibly can be.
In proof of the above grimin and of the salutary effect of the whipping Ordinance I beg to put in the following requests from frisones relative thereto.
Prisoner "Low
a on sentenced të livelve months' imprisonment with hard labor, and to be three limes publicly whijyped with twenty five ströstes each lime
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