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of a second:

felony; and, as Chief Judge

of that Court, I made it

impose

by

a.

the severest penalty

The law for

any

rule to

allowed

second conviction

for ordinary robbery, and for the first or other conviction for burglary

.6.

No doubt there is

a

great

inducement here for the Magistrates

to avoid the recognized mode of dealing with old offenders; and I

do not attach the smallest blame to

The able and experienced gentlemen

who have been

forced

to

carry

it

out were

compelled.

in a facile sustene. The

deportation laws which

were

as the then Chief Justice recently pointed out:

prepared

for a totally

different purpose, have been used to furnish larcenies and to relieve the overcrowded-cell of the Gaol. One of the returns appended by the Captain Superintendent of Police to his Report— ending in 1876, which he presented to Sir Arthur Kennedy in January shows that the deportation of this class of criminals is no real protection to the Community; and that the prisoner who has been repeatedly punished with inadequate sentences returns from deportation to resume his robberies. My

few mention here completely confirm

experience.

the evidences on this subject laid in 1876

accumu...

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of a second: felony; and, as Chief Judge of that Court, I made it impose by a. the severest penalty The law for any rule to allowed second conviction for ordinary robbery, and for the first or other conviction for burglary .6. No doubt there is a great inducement here for the Magistrates to avoid the recognized mode of dealing with old offenders; and I do not attach the smallest blame to The able and experienced gentlemen who have been forced to carry it out were compelled. in a facile sustene. The deportation laws which were as the then Chief Justice recently pointed out: prepared for a totally different purpose, have been used to furnish larcenies and to relieve the overcrowded-cell of the Gaol. One of the returns appended by the Captain Superintendent of Police to his Report— ending in 1876, which he presented to Sir Arthur Kennedy in January shows that the deportation of this class of criminals is no real protection to the Community; and that the prisoner who has been repeatedly punished with inadequate sentences returns from deportation to resume his robberies. My few mention here completely confirm experience. the evidences on this subject laid in 1876 accumu...
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of a second:

felony; and, as Chief Judge

of that Court, I made it

rinprose

by

a.

the severest penalty

The law for

any

rule to

allowed

eccond curviction

for ordinary robbery, and for the first or other conviction for burglary

.6.

No doubt there is

a

great.

inducement here for the Magiciates

H

0

to avoid the recognized mode of dealing with old "offenders; and I

do not attach the smallest blame to

The able and experienced gentemen

who have been

to

earry

ریم

it

were

emmpelled.

int a facitly sustene. The

deportation laws which

wwere

as the timor the Chief Justice recently printed out:

praped

for a totally

W

131

lastr

different purpose, have been used to furnish larcenies and to relieve the werermoded-cell of the Gaol. One of the returns apprended by the Paplain Inperintendent of Police to his Report- erine in 1876, which he presented to Sis Arthur Kennedy in January shows that the deportation of this clap of criminals is no real prox lection to the Cammunity; and that the prismer who has been repeatedly pirnished with inadequate sentences returns from defivitation to resume his robberies. My

few mention here cumpletely confiamo

experience.

am

the evidences on this subject lated in 1876

accumu

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