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carry any stigma, but, I believe would

rather bring honor as shewing him to be a victim of the "foreign devils?"

Y. I think the foregoing arguments sufficiently show the utility of the Ordinana providing for the branding and flogging of criminals. I

now accordingly turn to

that

for

the Oral examination of prisoners,

which, as it owes its origin to caules coquate to those which induced me to lay the former measure before the Council may conveniently be treated in the same delpatch.

8. repon this Ordinance I do not free that I can usefully add any

ungthened observations to those given in the

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Acting Attorney Generals report which have

my concurrence. I must, however, remark that

during the course of my administration of this Government, I have become daily more

convinced

of the inaptuees of much of our

criminal procedure to the circumstances in

which we find ourselves. The hands of the Police are tied and their utility often impaired by the necessary adherence of our Courts to rules, which, however well fitted to the place which gave them birth, have little practical value here. Their result often

is that cases of importance fall through where had a little more discretion been placed in the hands of the budge, convictions must have been