§ 26. Mr. DAYasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Courts of any of the British Colonies have, during the previous three years, passed sentences of corporal punishment upon prisoners who have been convicted of political offences?
§ Dr. SHIELSNo, Sir. I would point out that there are no offences specified as political in British Colonies. Prisoners can only be convicted of breaches of the ordinary law.