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justice, in August, 1876, who saw the

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records, if he did his duty properly

and looked at the books when he

visited the prison,

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was the Honourable

gentleman himself. Twice only in

that year, in April and August, did

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he act as visiting justice. Did he through the books and see if any

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illegal punishment had, in the

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interval, been inflicted? If he did,

he saw the illegal punishments and

took no notice of them. But I presume

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the answer is that he did not. And

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in the opinion of ot Phillippo, who,

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say, always gave

his opinion

with great reluctance in cases

Kind, the floggings

were

of this

illegal. From

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a reteern prepared for me by Captain

Ducat, there were,

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according to the

Attorney General's opinion, no less ___

than 828 illegal floggings, of one ~

class of illegal floggings alone, in ten

years in the Bonghong Gaol.

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Mook Akwai was committed

for trial for returning from deportation. " He died before he could be brought to "the Supreme Court. An inquest-

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was held. The Colonial Surgeon " he had been suffering from phthisis for years. The every found he died from phthisis. I called for the records of the Gaol relating to him. I saw he

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had been flogged four times. The

last one being in Qetober 1876. The -