" in the place of those
Con
"in the said Ordinance?? .
Swing
tained
that Ordinance Ab
of 1847 is now before Your Lordships, it's provisions will continue
and
OL
until repealed, I have thought
it on the whole advisable to submit
this Ordinance for Your Lordships' observations, previously to passing
into
my
Law.
I have personally given
best attention to the Provisions
of this Ordinance, and on the whole
satisfied
Sam
therewith, and that
the Power it vests in the Chief Magistrate of Police
is
ex
to
try felonies,
absolutely necessary .
The Population of this Settlement
Molony is, as
may be supposed, extremely migratory, and it therefore becomes particularly necessary
that all minor crimes should be
disposed of as soon
Commission
Da
can do
after they conveniently
can be. I do not wish to
advocate any unbecoming haste in their adjudication, but
I am
satisfied that for the Prisoner himself, of
the
Complainant, and of the Witnesses,
a speedy decision, even by an inferior Tribunal, is preferable
to a
matured one
by a superior Court,
if the latter is to be attended with a delay perhaps of a couple of months, and the Prisoner during
that time to be kept in
the
confinement, and probably, in the end, to be released, Complainant and Witnesses having left the Colony. Nor should the expense of maintaining Witnesses
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