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Moncover all comparison fails betwveen our Criminal population and that of the British Sales - So brand English thief is no doubt to mark him with indelible disgrace, and to effectually prevent his oblaining

honest employment in his

own

country. In the interest

seems undesirable,

of the thief therefore the practice

whatever

may

be said of it in the interest of the

employer. But the Chinese reprobate is known to be

gace-

generally of migratory habits. He comes and goes

district as want, the chances of -

to or from any flunder, or the spasmodic energy of the local

mandarius drive him. Being what he is, a conspicuous

mark would not interfere prejudicially with his career

where out of the Colony,

of the Colony; and if his family

any

village friends recognized its meaning it would not carry any stigma, but, I believe, would rather bring hover as showing him to be a victim of the "foreign

devils

7. I think the foregoing arguments sufficiently show the utility of the Ordinance providing for the branding and flogging of cruimials

I now

accordingly turn to that for the Cral exaumiation of prismers, which, as it owes its

origin

me to

to causes

cognate to these which indued

e to lay the former

measure

before the Convert,

may conveniently be treated in the same despatch. 8. Upon this Ordinance I do not feel that I

can

reefully add any lengthened observations

to these given in the

report, which have

*

however,

· Acting Attorney Generals

my

remark that

that du

ConcureuEC -

I must

during

the course

of my

mnaftness.

administration of this Government I have become daily

much of

more convinced of the craftness of

our crimmal procedure to the circumstanc

m