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3 looked upon by Resolution 1.

Are

the town's night a subject for an Indignation meeting to deplore the lack of! And the danger of entrusting great powers in the hands of a Surveyor General.

As to the first, I am

Jan happy

to learn by a late mail that

My opinion already certified to this

matter has been, in a case not

nearly so strong as this of the local Ordinances of 1844 and 1856, been

entirely corroborated at every point by the decision of the full court of Queen's Bench at Westminster

in the

Case

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of "The Overseers of the poor of the Parish of Napton.

As to the second, let

the gentlemen themselves say where, if the Department of Public Works, for such is our Surveyor General's office be not trustworthy, will they place the large powers,

Confessedly required for the purposes of public health and Safety?

If this Colony indeed enjoyed or were likely to enjoy

a System of Police worthy of the much abused Appellation, I might recommend that to

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