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Persal Laws Amendment Ordinance 1881?.

2.

As the proposed

Government measure involved the

repeal

or

or amendment of eleven Ordinances and dealt with a subject that had caused some little controversy in the Colony, I circulated amongst the members of Council copies extracts of various despatches and other papers relating to remission of sentences, branding and flogging. Bonghong, and I introduced the Bill

with

a

in

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six copie

I moved the Second reading on the 13th

instant, when, the Bill was read

a

second time unanimously. The only members who took part in the debate, the Acting Chief Justice and Mr. Bulkeley Johnson (of Messrs Jardine, Matheson 469). supported the Bill on the ground that the satisfactory state of

state of crime in the

bolony justified it.

4.

Mr. Snowden (the stating

Chief Justice) said: -" "There is no doubt

"the state of crime is

much

very

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few explanatory

remarks so as

better than it was when

I

first

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to elicit on the second reading a full

expression of opinion.

3.

Having allowed ten

days to elapse after the First reading

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came to the Colony in 1874.

Lately, I think, crime has "much decreased, especially

of violence.

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very

crimes

His Honour

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