Note 47 — Chapter IV · THE PROBLEMS OF PENOLOGY.
Reading edition
See Sir G. Staunton’s Penal Code of China, lxxi. 278-9, 285, 345, 367, 381, 449, for tables apportioning punishment to different crimes according to an exact mathematical scale. There is no reason to suppose that this scale was never acted upon, even if it is not observed now, about which there is no good evidence.