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Department to provide for the

carrying into effect of Cafutal Punishment within

Prisons, and instructing me to report to Your Space my opinion as to the expediency adopting the principle of the Bill in this leolony

I lost no time in

time in laying Your Grace's

despatch and enclosure before my

Executive

fauncil and have new to acquaint your

Plpace

that after

fresolved" that

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mature deliberation it

was

any change in the mode of

camping out capital bentences in this faclany to the leouncil at present uncollect

jappears

for by any mexpedient."

local necessity and is otherwise

I quite coincide with the launcil in

although I was myself

that view although

the introducer of

an

Act in South

Australia Similar to that

forwarded by Your Space, and though before my appointment to the Government of Nova botia I had been es impressed by the horrors attending

Public Executions in England that I took advantage of a plight personal acquaintance with Sir George Spey then Secretary of State for the Home Department to request him to

consider whether there

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any insuperable obptacle to the introduction in England

of Legislation similar to that pucceffully adopted in reference to Public Executions in Australia.

I believe that

my representations

led to inquiry and I perceive that