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are ordered

than two Floggings to be given within six months, be, at the

the intermediate one

discretion of the Lurgion when

be considers it necesary, given within the Gool on the buttocks

the back and

instead of

shoulders" _ his object in this suggestion being apparently to meet the difficulty of getting the wounds sufficiently Kenled

with in the timme. He adds the

following sentence

"The Daily average [of prisonces "confined in the Gaol I was 567

of which number 71 died."

4.

Roverno fir Richard

MacDonnell arrears to have duly

reported the severe cystem of

Flogging he introduced and other changes in the came direction, for I find that the harl

f Carnarvon in decrated P. 25 the 8th February 1857 says.-

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"It is not easy to

judge

whit

Kind of prison discipline ought

to be enforced on Chinese

Criminals, but I am bound to foserve that the first impresion

reading the results of the

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changes which

you

have effected

in that respect is that the