CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8] — Page 542

that persons who have

been deported from the Colony, and who

return

may

without permission

from the Governor shall be subject to the

punishment of Branding

Flogging.

This clause must

be repealed

Can

only

in very

Branding

is Justified

rare cases

where it may be of

vital importance

able to identify

the

3. I must request

you to provide for the repeal of that

clause

a Criminal

but

Her Majesty, so far

cannot sanction

it as

A

537

punishment.

4. Flogging has already

been

very properly

limited by the Ordinance

2012 of 1865. In cases

in

which

crimes

by

their violence or

atrocity disclose

a brutal or brutal

intractable

Nature, and I am

of opinion

that it

is not

fitting

punishment in

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