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"in the Supreme Court. At first ~

"this raised the number of prisoners.

forest

there greatly. The first monthly calendar after the change raised the number ofprisoners for brisal, "for trial to, I believe, forty, but

"when the adequate punishment of "old offenders became known, "subsequent calendars soon returned

to the usual rate, and some of "the worst characters in the Colony " were subject to long terms of "imprisonment without any "sensible increase in the inmates

" of the gaol.

as an additional

• ghd Flogging * punishment

for

crimes accompanied

" with violence was introduced by *Ordinance immediately after Chief

་

"Justice Adams, and I had gone

home

on sich leave. She and I had

" always opposed its introduction : I

“am bound to say.

that

on my

for a year,

the

"return, after trial for

"universal satisfaction expressed at

"the rebelt induced

myj

reluctant

* acceptance of the systems.

#

I, however, was prepared to

"consider with very great earnestness,

"the objections of His Excellency the "Governor to flogging

in public.

"supported as he was by

the

" highest authority at home. "Flogging being brutal and "brutalizing, it appeared to me

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