1845-01-29 — Page 1

29th January 1845.

Present, His Excellency the Governor

Honble M. Genl D'Aguilar

Honble Frederick Bruce

Honble The Chief Justice

Honble Major Caine

Honble R. M. Martin

The Attorney General was present as Legal Adviser.

The Governor read to the Council a Despatch which he proposed to address to Lord Stanley on the subject of His Lordship's letter of the 27th September, prohibiting the Transportation of Convicts, and consideration was given to the best method of devising a means for creating a secondary punishment in lieu of it; after much deliberation, It was Resolved that an appeal should be made by the Governor to alter this decision of the Home Government on the ground of the utter impossibility of finding any efficient secondary punishment whatever, and would recommend transportation to the States Settlements by arrangement with the East India Company, but that in the mean time, though the sentence of transportation would be passed as before by the Judge, the Convicts now or hereafter under this Sentence, should be worked in Chains with the addition of wearing the Cangue until the answer to the representations of the Governor on the subject should be received.

Read and approved Sd, J. F. Davis

this 5th day of February 1845

Sd, A. E. Shelley

Clerk of Councils