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criminal, loafing classes being dumped down upon us 

 and if Ordinance No. 186, called the "Infirm Paupers 

 Ordinance/ \ were properly enforced it would pre- 

 vent them from coming. Many years ago I called 

 attention to this, and then a spasmodic effort was 

 made to enforce it but was soon allowed to drop 

 again. I again assert that it is not enforced in the 

 way it ought to be. 



There was a story told in my early days, for the 

 accuracy of which I cannot vouch, although it was 

 told to me as a veritable fact which I repeat as I 

 remember it. 



Some years ago, it was more frequently re- 

 marked upon than it is now that a class of West In- 

 dians who found their way here were not desirable. 

 Enquiries being made it was ascertained that at least 

 one of the neighbouring islands adopted a system of 

 getting rid of their criminal classes which, so far as 

 they were concerned, proved effectual. Whenever 

 an old offender was convicted of an offence for 

 which he, in addition to imprisonment, was liable to 

 receive corporal punishment, the magistrate who 

 tried the case sentenced him to be imprisoned for a 

 certain time and in addition to undergo corporal 

 punishment by the infliction of thirty lashes : ten to 

 be inflicted at the expiration of the first month, ten 

 on the day before the sentence expired, and ten with- 

 in one month after being released from gaol. It is 

 hardly necessary to say that the last ten would have 

 been illegal, but anyway there never was any neces- 



