Execution of Criminals Act 1861 (SA)

ANNO VICESIMO QUARTO ET VICESIMO QUINTO

A. D. 1861.

No. 1.

An Act to amend a?& Act, No. 23 of 22nd Victoria, intituled An

Act to Regulrcte the Execw tion of Criwhzals."

[Assented to, 18th July, 1 86 l.]

HEREAS by an Act, No. 23 of 22nd Victoria, intitulcd L' An Act Preamble.

W to Regulate the Execution of Criminals," it was enacted that	sentence of death passed on any person should be carried into effect
within the walls, or within the enclosed yard, of the Gaol of Adelaide, or of such other gaol as the Governor, by writing under his hand, might direct: And whereas it may be desirable in certain caaes, that sentence of death passed on any of the aboriginal natives of the Province of South Australia, should be carried into effect at the place where the crime for which such sentence shall have been passed was committed-Be it therefore Enacted, by the Governor-in-Chief of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Province, in
this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. I t shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice and consent of ere

the Executivc Council, by writing under his hand, to order that any the cnmc war aom-

sentence of death, which shall have been lawfully passed on any abori- ginal native of the said Province, may be publicly carried into execu- tion at the place at which the crime, in respect of which such sentence

shall have been passed, was committed, or as near to such place as

conveniently may be; and to order that, after such sentence s h d have been executed, the body of any such aboriginal native shall be bwied at the place of execution, or at such other place as the GOWXIIQT may deem expedient; and the said Act to regulate the

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execution of criminals shall not be applicabie to proceedings conse-

quent on any such order of the Governor, with the advice and

consent aforesaid.

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Act. 2. This Act shall take effect from the 25th day of May, 1861.

In the name and on behalf of the Qnecn I hereby assent to

this Act.

RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,

Governor.

Government House, Adelaide,

18th July, 1861.

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