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entry appears in the Minutes of the Executive Council on the 3rd of September 1872.
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"Read and considered a
Despatch from the Secretary of State N.86 of the 20th June conveying Her Majesty's confirmation of - Ordinance No. 4 of 1872, to make provision for the Branding and "Punishment of Criminal in
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certain cases, and it appearing-
that the Knowledge of the grounds
upon which Her Majesty
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was
advised to confirm and allow
of the Ordinance should only be
confined to the Members of the "Excentive Connel, it is suggested
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" by this Excellency and concurred in by the Council, that the Despatch
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in question should not be... " submitted to the Legislative
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Council"
As to the statement that the
Chinaman would be no
brand on a
stigma but would rather bring hime honour, Mr. Douglas, the Superintendent of the Gaol in 1871 and 1872, recorded official minute exactly
in an
the
opposite opinion and foretold, what has come to pass,
that it would drive the
branded men back upon
Colony and
back upon the Colony
increase the criminal class.
17.
ots regards Lord Kimberley's
confirmation of the Ordinance NoH of
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