X
Copy No 44.
C.D.
NOVGO
1846
In 1605 A Ker 120
Chief, Magistrate's Office,
Pretoria, 17th August 1846
I have the honor, on behalf of myself. and the Officiating Assistant Magistrate, to bring to your notice, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, the desirability of our receiving some definite authority for the disposal, in the case of persons other than Chinese, of charges of pottyp theft, and other offences not of a serious character, which by English law require
of a jury.
the intervention.
On the first establishment of the Colonial Police Courts, the Magistrates were
provided with "Warrants which empowered
The Honorable,
Major Caine :
Off HColonial Secretary
&&
Jc.
them