CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5] — Page 119

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that he had been subjected to

sunishments in Brison which the

Attorney General reported were not

"lawful! In this case the hrisoner

the

was ordered to do another kind of

hard labour, such

من

the Colonial

he

was

Surgeon could certify physically capable of doing, and

as he beged this order, the flogging

was remitted.

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ترکی

To this note they append

Aurther list

the Criminals 吓

sentenced to be flogged since July 1878

Showing that

in

was carried out.

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every

Care

the sentence

Whilst the senfounded

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staternents, is industriourly made in sextain quarters, respecting my alleged abolition of corporal punishment thus authoritatively disposed of, I am

prepared to accept as

Excentive

my

the Head

f

full share of blame

For

not having detected before the 100 of September 1878 the

blot in our

very

serines

our Police arrangements which

the Committee rightly regard as having

more to do with the increase in some

caps of offences

than

anry

other cause.

The incufficicully quarded state of the Town at night has existed ever since

the year 1874, and indeed to some extent before then. du hie

In his raply

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