PLATE XIX.
CONDUCTING AN O F F E N D E R INT O
BANISHMENT.
A PERSON, sentenced to transportation, is thus led, by an officer of
justice, into the country appointed for his future residence. He carries
a mat to serve him as a bed, and a leaf of a palm tree, to protect him
from the weather. Upon his bacìi, his crime, his sentence, and his
name, are displayed in conspicuous characters.
This punisliment is inflicted upon those, who have struck an elder
brother; who have incurred debts by gaming, which they are unable
to pay ; and for such other offences as appear to render the perpetrator
unworthy to continue in his native country.
When offenders are thus conducted into some distant province, they
are to be recalled, but, if into Tartary, their banishment is perpetual.
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