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passing of Ordinance W: 12 of 1864. There

is no one

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sure in this Polany who 5516/15

will not acknowledge the beneficial effect

of itrat Ordinance. Before it passed) robbery

with violence

occurrence), aw

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ae

a matter of every day form especially, attended

with much brutality, the puthing of ear-

lings from women's ears.

The Ordinance

passed.

Io a mouth

or two after its passing (the Priminal I Sessions of this Colany are mouchly) stere

Avas

Mo

sensible diminution of crime, but,

number of persons had been

when a larges sentenced to be floggedi,

flogged in pursua

the effect

was

ance)

and had been

of their sentence,

marvellows,

Crimes attended with violence gradually

diminished;

nava

dayps

At E

scarcely

hear of them, and that class to which I have especially alluded is essentially of the past.

From the present Ordinance I anticifialy

I will not

any

ihe

same results; for dis reason, that the crines contemplated by this

are not unfrequently effected:

Ordinance

through the Agars of women whom I humanity preserves from corporal punish =

A

aprap

ment, but

will tend to deter

with them.

beneficial result as

Mules

it

from confederating

I must not fail to observe that the provisions of this Ordinance do not confer repon the Supreme Court the

as

Zamu

power

Ordinance N. 12 of 1865, this Ordinance