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w Frinion (and the Attorney General in his later

Prision seems now dispord to take the same view) "the adjudication to find security within twelve "mouth chould in each case

be reported, Inthwith, to the Governor, and could have

" tesal prospective effect in contemplation of Imprisonment. of Jam right, there have

"been hundreds

cares of

this Kind improperly "dealt with by the Magistrates, for the second "Sentence I have quoted in a preceding paragrafle food is the form of sentence pronounced week atter week by M. May and M. Pompell "When they desire to add deportation to "impresonment."

9.

In reply to this, Lord Carnacom was good enough in his despatch N. 104

of the 28th of August 1877 to say..

"Wilts

reference to the practice which

has been in use

of ordering prisoners when

" sentenced to find security at the ench of "their imprisonment, and of deferring

"the

report to the Governo, the view which "you have taken appears to me to be "correct and

General

as the

Attorney

"concurs and M. May suggests a course

or

preventing the error in future,

I have

merely to approve your action in calling "attention to the subject."

Brute, though steps were taken

10

to

prevent

the

a

error in future, a considerable proportion of the deportation sentences to

take effect in 1877 and already been pased,