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Extract from the Visiting Justices Book :

HongKong Prison

" In reference to the subject of flogging

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e find that a practice has obtained in the Gaol of flogging with the oat Regulation instrument in cases where the Ordinances sanction "rattan" and in

the Gaol Ordinances No 4 of 1863 Section X 1 the powers of Superintendent are defined:

and there the flogging instrument in cases

of felony is a rattan !"

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"In all the Ordinances where the

Magistrates are invested with the power of whipping the rattan is th