severely on Mr. Holdforth, Swould Remind
you,
that be a person who has been in the Receipt of a salary hardly sufficient for his
support in this most expensive of Colonice, the refunding of muney must be productive of. great inconvenience; and the hardship
will.
appear greater. that had there been
when it is considered-
any previous intimation
of the approaching Eductions, he would have
Situation.
It is the more
avoided such a contingency by designing his felt too by Mr. Holdforth, as he has decently, though the
misconduct of another person, sustained losses
of a larger amount
acc
from his
erving from.
former connection with the Supreme Court
of its officers.
as or
a
Sembrace this opportunity of urging
Request
that Sintended to make at ant
early date, had this occasion not,
4 presented
in Council will
itself, that His Excellency take inte consideration the propriety of
as in
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Sydney, and I
Relieving the Sheriff, believe other Colonies, from the liabity he
now incurs
the
more
• by the excope of debtors ; a liability to the facility of excape,
· felt owing
from the prison and from the Polony, from
the forisan owing
to it's having been originally
a private dwelling house, and therefore not constructed with any view to the safe custory of its inmates ; and
· from the Colony from its vicinity to the mainland of China and to Macao ._ I do not ask to be relieved from
L
Reasonable Responsibility, nor to be shielded from the punishment due to a
negligent escape; but only from the Quinous consequences to myself which
Result from the present state of the law, by which the debt, however larger of
may
er,
escaped prisoner (
te
and in one instance
this has amounted to 94 or 25,000 $
Recoverable from the sheriff .
As
1 you,
Sir
are enabled by your