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"Pardons, tc., had been discontinued to. Hc.

and to prove that this Ordinance was necepary, he would inform the funcil what had been done with reference to the branding of Criminals. There was a

very

excellent opinion of Mr Pauncefote given in May 1870 shortly after His Exellency left the Colony. For a long

time it had been considered that there

was

no

objection to branding

Prisoner and

giving

An

him a pardon

condition that if he came back to the flony he would receive a certain number of strokes of lash. The Minute from Mr Pauncefote puet concisely together the action taken on subject; and it was

this

very important

(

for the folony

as there was no doubt

that nothing diminish crime so __ effectually as flogging and branding. Ms Pauncefotis minute set forth that

in 1866 an Ardinance was ḥassed. providing among other things for the branding of returned friminale, but ford farnarvon then Secretary of State for the flonies objected altogether to this clause, and ordered it to be

to

expunged. In point of fact it was a matter of the greatest difficulty impress on the English Authorities the exceptional circumstances existing and

that there is a

difference between Middleser and Honghong in the

difficulty of keeping criminals at bay.

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