CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4] — Page 154

2.

153

"Low or Ordinance of the Colony may

be thereunto annexed.

خودم

In the Gavernar's Instructions under the Royal Sign Manual, and Signet (Art: XXXX) the Provision of the Charter as to Pardons is recited,

and the Practice to be observed in

such luxes is laid down, and the

Governer is forbidden to Pardon

the

any

offender unless upon receiving the. advice of the Executive Connail____ thereon.

Ordinance No1 of 1860 regulates the Pourers of the Governar as to Conditional Pardons, and defines exeatly the Conditions which he

to a Pardon.

annex

may

Ses Reports

of Governors

Simon

my return to the Colony

in December 1865, I have heard of. Criminals being liberated upon certain Conditions us to branding, Deportation,

and until

Flogging, but I never

Avas Board ut

tted

now as to the legality of these Proceadings, and I have always been

under the impression that the System was carried on in pursuance of n Special Instructions from the Serritory of State.

Whether the System be

Plantern objectionable or not, having regard to

Colonies.

Goumans the exceptional Conditions of the Colony V. G. Mare Frommalle, (Cat. 29th 1867)

to Crime; is a Secondary consider_ Pins13 p. 30_sition. The important question

upon which

my opinion is required