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Return of

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• tried in the Supreme Enclosure Me!

Court in 1869 and 1870 and

d.

Arv

The Police Returns of

Extract from Cavviction,

for

The

which it would be

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perfluous to

camment, as

allegation.

past year,

regards the above

&. In reference to the latter I

would havever, desire to remark

upon the sudden (although temporary)

increase

of Police cases,

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which took

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place in the manch of thay,- circumstance directly to be attributed to the abolition of Branding and Alogging in that month, and as

I consider it advisable that Your Lordship should be fully acquainted

Enclosure Nit

Enclosure Me 3.

11.4:90

Letter from 1st Police

Magistrate Enclosure No. 4. Attorneylomerals Opimion

23.670.

Enclosure No 6. Theme from Colonial sary to Supt of Gaol.

25$90.

with the grands upon which I

ordered the discontinuance

above

of the

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practice, I beg to inclose copy

of the papers, relating to this subject ogether with the Attorney Generals

to

opinion shaving the infliction of

"such punishments to be illegal.

Sir Richard Mar Damell, in

b.

paragraph to of his letter, expreses aprision, attributing the alleged

rease

of crime to "administrative "weathness and meapacity","– which I

remark

being immediately preceded by the statement that this mercase) erine had taken place since his departure from the Colony, would almost bear the construction that

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of