CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 123

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of

of

a just and merciful treatment

criminals.

13. My recommendations are, that the Branding Ordinances be repealed; _ that Public Flogging be abolished by law; - that all laws in

Hong Kong which impose flogging

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persons of the Chinese race

exclusively, be repeated; _ that all

Flogging

offences

be abolished except for such

as

entail flogging

England, and that flogging

the back be abolished

in

Ho

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Gaol

Superintendent of the bao! and

Police Magistrate,

entrusted only to a

but that

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you

of

have already in despatch

3rd October 1879 expressed

on that

your opinion and Mr Crofus improper provision of the Honghong Gaol Ordinance, clause II N 4 of 1863. Having laid your despatch before my Executive Council, together with a Repori from the Superintendent of the Gaol

thest from burients the subject, the Council unanimously.

I would have

by added that the

law.

Executive Connal $179 April 1980.

authority to order prisoners to be

Flogget

be taken away from the

recommended, in accordance with what

was evidently the views of Her Majesty's Government, that an _

amendment

of

the Gaol Ordinance

should be made transfering the power of

on

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