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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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