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1 Massachusetts House Report No. 3 1 (1832)

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             HOUSE......No. 3.










     IN HousE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JUNE 21, 1831.

  The  Committee to whom was referred a 1 Report on
the Punishment of Death, have carefully examined and
considered the same, and being deeply impressed with
the great importance, of the subject to the well being of
society, and of the propriety of the greatest deliberation
and caution in changing a mode of punishment, which
has been so long and so generally in use, they regret
that the shortness of the time allotted to the continu-
ance of the present Session of the General Court, for-
bids the attempt to accomplish that change, which they
are unanimously of opinion ought to be made in the
criminal laws of this Commonwealth at this time. They
therefore


                REPORT,


  That the further consideration of this subject be re-
ferred to the next' General Court, and that tAc Hon.
               I

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