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 My recommendations are, that the Branding Ordinances be repealed; _ that Public Flogging be abolished by law; - that all laws in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