ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
[We are at all times ready to give expression to every shade of opinion, but in" , no case do we hold ourselves responsible for the sentiments of our correspondents.] TO THB EDITOR OF THE AKAEOA MAIL. #* Sir,—ln reference to your ably written leading article of Friday last, I would beg . to remark that in Scotland the punishment
for perjury is directed by statute, the last of which 1555, c. 47, declares " perjury to be punishable by confiscation of movables, «• piercing the . tongue, and infamy; to which the judge in aggravated cases may add any other penalty that the case seems to require." By the same Act, " subordination of perjury is punishable as perjury." I am, &., CALEDONIA.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 86, 15 May 1877, Page 2
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118ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 86, 15 May 1877, Page 2
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