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inevitable.

9. Under these circumstances, I regard

the present Ordinance as decidedly a step

in the right direction and the power it entrusts to Ludicial Officers will, I _

think, if exercised with discretion be found entirely beneficial. I have accordingly no hesitation in recommending it for

the sanction of

Her Majesty.

I have to.

pliqued) Richard Graves Macdonnell,

Governor

Extract from deslated 1.114 17 25th June

1845 by Lord Stanley

on an Ordinance

for the suppression of Trink Society, (No 1 of 1845.).

"An indelible mark impresed

the cheek

of a

a Criminal, even if

unattended by pain is get evidently objectionable as fastening

the

delinquent a stiqua from which he could never be rescued by

any future

future course of good conduct. him to permanent

It would consign

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