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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