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of the Reformatory dehool etet 1566.

To avoid as much as

any religious difficulty

as possible

or any

objection which might be made on the ground that the religious teaching or influence of the Reformatory was different from the religious persuasion of the offenders, sub clauses 1, 2, 3+4 of Section 12 have been inserted; they provide that, should there be at the time of sentence, more than one certified Reformatory dehool, the Court or Magistrate shall make the selection after enquiry into the previous education, position in life, and training of the offender.

-one

Should there be only Reformatory School Mhe Magistrate may order the offender to be therein detained, objecting to that order way any one

and

make application to the Governor. In case the party objecting

can make

suitable provision for the sare, maintenance,

C

and education of the offender the Governor

in Council has power upon such terms

as to him

may

seem advisable to set

aside the sentence and entrust the

offender to the custody of such person

as he shall direct.

It is very unlikely that

as our

in

AD

any

of the ordinary cases to deal with which this Ordinance has been passed, any objection will be made, or that these provisions will ever be applied, but composed -population is of many different creeds and nationalities, it is just possible that a case might -happen, in which it would be felt

to be a hardship, if the offender

offender were sent to a Reformatory, where of the teaching differed essentially from his religious _ persuasion. These provisions will, submit, meet any difficulty

that ground.

arise on

which

In all other respects the

9

Ordinance follows the Reformatory

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and

school