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you
will move
the Secretary Major General "Commanding to order that the limits of the Cantonment at Check Choo shall be
carefully defined, and marked off by natural marks or where they do not exist by pillars being built, and as soon
as this is done the limits will be
"published for general information and an Ordinance or Regulation will be framed and passed in Council providing for all offences committed within those limits as well as all claims
as all claims for debts (both to a certain to be defined extent) being investigated and disposed of by a Military Court of Requests, which can be appointed monthly (to sit once
or twice a week as occasion may require) under such orders as the Honorable the Major General
or
may
be pleased to issue.
In conclusion Sam directed to
further communicate to
you
the
opinion of Government, that a Guard Room with Hecks and lock-up cells
should be built within the Cantonment limits, for
the
confinement of all persons taken up for offences committed within the cantonment until the charges
martial against them can be inquired into, and in cases where the punishment
awarded
may
include imprisonment for any period longer than a few days (which will be denoted in the Ordinance
or Regulation already adverted to) the Prisoners can be sent under
a
Warrant
of the Commanding Officer to the Jail
at Victoria.
I have to
(signed) Richard Horniam
A true copy.
Michard Women
Clerk's tilt $
further