this Colony to defeat the operation of the Buildings and Nuisances Ordinances of 1856, and that to do so, they are prepared to set at nought the express letter as well as the spirit of those enactments. It further appears that the acting Chief Magistrate of Police, although not personally concurring in the views of his brother justices, gave them the opportunity of attending at the late hearing, by Circular dated the 7th instant requesting those gentlemen (of whom the vast majority
were to his knowledge determined to set aside the Ordinances in question upon every possible occasion) to do him the personal favor of their attendance on this occasion, informing them, at the same time, that the matter in hand was "an alleged Nuisance, under Ordinance No 2 of 1856". They attended accordingly in number of five:- and to the Offence having been fully proved, I presume to their Satisfaction in other respects, - they unanimously absolved
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