LETTERS PATSVA
Grant of
pardon.
Remission fines. Proviso. Bɗnishment prohibited. _xception. Political offences.
XV.
When any crime or offence has been committed within the Colony, or for which the offender may be tried therein, the Governor may, as he shall see occasion, in Our name and on Our behalf, grant a pardon to any accomplice in such crime or offence who shall give such information as shall lead to the conviction of the principal offender, or of any one of such offenders, if more than one; and further, may grant to any offender convicted of any crime or offence in any Court, or before any Judge or other Magistrato wi thẳn
the Colony, a pardon, either free or subject to lawful conditions, or any remission of the sentence passed on such offender, or any respite of the execution of such sentence for such period as the Governor thinka fit, and may remit eny fines, panalties, or forfeitures due or accrued to Us. Provided always that the Governor shall in no case, except where the offence has been of a political nature unaccompanied by any other grave crime, make it a condition of any pardon or
remission of sentence that the offender shall be banished from
or shall absent himself or be removed frau the Colony.
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