CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2] — Page 357

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are anxions that the aut sadlageren røver

to award the

Cat

I have always undrestood that the garrotters were, but down with pet success swing

to the Act & 1863 which allowed the cat to be employed. His no doubt a brutal

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tom of perishment but the persons whi indulge in the crimes which cat punishes are not susceptible & milder measures, As is shown by the just that itt puisis

+ whithings with the birch have no effect.

The only Efficitly that love is that

certain members

Partiament may.

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this ar or it, mise nolent protests; and

with the humanitarian tendencies now

sagne,

it may

be diffimet to explain

the

to their satisfaction or to the satisfaction of

Parliament that

t

Chinese gang rother

cannot be teated howled with kid

glosso.

But I hope that the S.IS. int be prepared to appiors the introduction of

the

if 50 is allowed for Exceptional case

Las

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It thing the Soft way be primed to allow woke than 24 sccolved

DSA.

the will, which sums start the mally my to

stop there crimes

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rience.

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draft bill affrond.

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The It. Koney land has hitherto been unduly wild,

since under Ssc 4 (4) of order 3 of 1903 only flossenes with a birch is permissible. This really amounts only to whipping & not to flogging-

In most colonies provision is made for both whipchinez

and floeggies wither in express terms of

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of a section or subsection leasing, the "instrument"

to bo " approved be, the Goo?"

with the cat for robbery with wistence

This flogging with the cat

is

no don't usually resorted to in most colonu's,

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and there seems to be good reason for it's

introduction as proposed. Hong Kong

But I do think that in the new section 4(1)(b)

we shd insist on the substitution of "twenty four" for "fifty" (off are §3), not only for the reason given by the A-C is he's minuts of 18th Feb | hara 3

in which he anticipates the reduction from so to

24/ but because for the last few years we have

insistid on a maximum of.

24 strokes for wor

Kind of whiftune; oflogging throne houk the Crown Colomes, because 24 strokes

with the cat

to be quoughs one het