CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9] — Page 236

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Central School

the new

gaol etc etc

Hongthong being small & comfact

there should be less trouble about

employing convicts

on

government

work's there than in other colonice

l.g. in the Straits.

The Committee however which

reported

on

the

Hoy Rong gaol in

do not seem to have recommended

1876 de ese the employing

soners outside the walls

the prisonces

the gard (dee 4511/77)

Straits

they

is

8

and in the

seem to think there

great danger of escape

when

81

they are so employed (de $285 3/2)

82

It also involor a larger staff of guards & wanders. There can however be no harm in

raising the print & I have added

a

1 few

MINUTE PAPER.

words to this draft for

Consideration

1-2. As to flogging for

Ord. 4

of 1863 gives

tendent power

233

by

the Superintendent,

fecal.

Ite

super in-

authority

on his our

to punish a felon by

moderate

Corporal punishment not exceeding

12 strokes

The newo

a lattan"

regulations of 1876

did not give this power,

the

годи

Committee which framed the regu

haring

∙lations, recommended its discontinuance

A

See 471-77) These

regulations

horo

• we were not definitely confirmed.

by the Colonial office and did

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