In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are many notices ofcommittals to the Fleet, so numerous that I can only mention a few, one only of which I give in the original spelling.
The Acts of the Privy Council throw some light on the Fleet, giving several instances of Committals thereto, one of the first being 9 Hen.
The following figures[71] prove this statement:-- Total Committals and Convictions for Homicide.
It will no doubt be found that certain of the habitual vagrants will not be amenable to the discipline of the ordinary labour colonies, or from their repeated escapes, and re-committals will need a more severe treatment.
The objections to a premature presentation of a plan by the National Executive consist in the danger of committals on points which could be more safely left to further developments.
The offence was “habitual drunkenness,” of which there are several definitions in the military code; but much the largest portion of the committals are for having been drunk “for the fourth time within 365 days.
The Archbishop proposes that all sentences beyond fifteen years should be irreversible, except by an Act of Parliament, specifying the names, offences, and previous committals of the prisoners pardoned.
The objection to a premature presentation of a plan by the National Executive consists in the danger of committals on points which could be more safely left to further developments.
It is better to let the matter stand as it is, awaiting events without any committals whatever.
And later I wrote:-- "If you can keep free from committals to Johnson, you will surely as you live be called upon to act as President.
The committals during this last reign had not exceeded 190 for the whole period, and when it capitulated only seven were in custody.
Not only is there more crime in the city than in the country, but from the densely populated parts of the city there are more committals than from the less crowded districts.
An examination of the reports of the Prison Commissioners for Scotland will suggest to anyone that a good deal might be done to diminish the number of committals to prison.
Authentic and irrefragable evidence of the magnitude of this danger exists in the statistical tables of committals which have now, for a very considerable time, been prepared in all parts of the British empire.
No committals have been made, nor will any be made, until after those visits have occurred.
That he should simply hear what they had to say, and should make no committals in any way; and that after he had heard them, he and M.
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