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practice to the Attorney General, Mr Phillippo, and to the Police Magistrates

and to request that the law should be

carefully

observed in

future".

In some

of those cases the law had been broken

in other particulars also by the

Authorities. For instance in the case

J

refer

to

in

paragraphs 8 and 9 of

my despatch eV? 39 of the 29th of expril 1879 (to which paragraphs your ___ despatch under reply calls attention)

I ascertained that the

prisoner had

been already illegally flogged.

3.

10

I had not however failed

to consider M. Phillippo's suggestion,

that the illegality

in the deportation

sentences might be remedied by my

The Governor's minute faret 21,

16th Nov 1877, i

of despatch ne 39 of 294 April 1879.

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giving

instructions that the prisoner,

though he had actually

Full

term of

served the

of his sentence of

imprisonment, should be again brought up before the Magistrate when

I might have instructed the brown Solicitor to move the Magistrate to -__ make a fresh order to compel the prisoner to find security, but I was

of opinion that and of policy

as d

matter of law

I should not be

justified in doing

now

of

so.

The point

is

but little practical interest as

the instructions I issued have secured

a

striet compliance with the terms of Ordinance, and the illegality is not

recur? As however you

likely

to

call