and subsequent experience has convinced.
that Se Jurisdiction intended to be by that Ordin. Ordinance sufficiently extensive. & given not I have Therefore caused to be drawn up, and submitted to the Legislative Council another which will enable the crimes most prevalent in the Colony to be carried out in a speedy manner, and which from the migratory nature of our population require speedy decision and punishment.
3. I beg to remark that I have not enlarged the power of inflicting heavier punishments on persons convicted of offences enumerated in the approved Draft Ordinance, but I have authorized certain offences heretofore tried before the Supreme Court to be disposed of in a summary manner. experience having proved that delay inseparable from the working of a Court of Justice with its technicalities and forms is altogether incompatible with the state of the Colony.
While I have, however, sanctioned the summary disposal of certain crimes hitherto tried before a jury, your Lordship will observe that I have not entrusted the jurisdiction to a single individual, but in lieu of the former jurisdiction Ordinance therein...
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