CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 106

years 1873- 1876.

1873

7480

1874

1875

1876

6546

5762 5481

Soc tubetter which show that the figures

for 1879

are still much #bove those for

1874 and 1875, and that the measures for

Alime

ab

repressing Giving

done

cannot be considered

their work for good & all

This despatch is apparently intended to sum

the criminal policy ini-

b. Hernessy's regione

uy.

1 Your d

-tiated during

and it may

be well to Spécify

what

has been done.

i, The System of

Short sentences and of

Conditional hardons has been discon-

·raged

•

This I think must be regarded

as a good thing: long sentences and close imprisonment must in the nature of things be far more deterrent. iii, The separate systern has been to a certain extant introduced, and from

What M: Tonnocky says, with great success

There has been

Some circulai

Correspondence on this subject

but

we cannot have a thorough reform in this

direction till the new

jail is built, an cenda. ∙tabling which has been much delay. ilii, The Police force has been strengthened

practically

л

4. Public Flogging has been discontinue -5. Flogging genern, Branding, and Deportation have been discourage the governor

As regards the recommendations in this despatch it appears to me that Branding & Public flogging might well be done law; but though the local

Acay

with

y

gorunment should use its discretion in

to other funishments e.g. depor.

regard

tation etc, they should not be either

abolished or to

any great extent medi-

fied centil the new

jail has been

erected and the separate system

brought into full play

The queste in

to raise d

which the govanor

Wishes

to settle is whether Chinese

Criminies should or should not be treated

like criminals of other nationalitie