CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7] — Page 32

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lahinese residents who

ww

represent the

Kidnapped children.

At the same

he parties

suppressing the

mast concerned.

abominable practice under consideration.

the latter recommended strongly that all parties implicated should be flogged publicly

native moder

and also suggested sundry of carrying out that punishment which however could not be entertained as being inconsistent with English usage.

d it

de. On the whole I requicted desirable that the penalty

increased

ous

should be

reery

by enabling the Supreme lemnt

to order flogging for Michnapping and also by inflicting salitury confinement- a punishment chiefly intended to meet

the cases of

of

women

who often

principal criminals in the caseo

are the

of

CHP

desirable (Section II)

time it seemed

to

reserve

to the Stipendiary Magistrates a power

of dealing,

mawne

when a

expedient, in a summary

with those cases, but without

authority to inflict the punishment of

flogging

8.

а

Suspending

clause however is

added to the Ordinance. So that

till confirmation of it by the Queen

it

cannot be proclaimed. This clause seemed to me called for, because the change in the punishment, however.

justifiable,

is one on

which Her c

ment is entitled

Majesty's Government

to exercise

a

preliminary

forth.com

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