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1729-1870 Policing in a Young Colony panel
Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 22, 2014
Caption: 1729-1870 Policing in a Young Colony panel
Additional Description: Capitons: (top, left) People accused of capital crimes were sent to trial in England. Fishing Admirals in Newfoundland dealt with all sorts of other lesser crimes and whipping was a common form of punishment in the early 1700s.; (middle, left) Captain Henry Osborn served as Newfoundland’s first Governor in 129-1731.; (middle, center) Governor John Harvey served in Newfoundland in 1841-1846, and initiated a connection with the Irish Constabulary.; (bottom, center) Timothy Mitchell is regarded as the first chief of Newfoundland’s modern constabulary.
Submitted: November 25, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p293194
File Size: 3.419 Megabytes

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