the current Authorities.
I have, … (Signed) W. F. Mercer,
Colonial Secretary.
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Victoria, Government House,
7th February, 1857.
To His Excellency The Governor
in Executive Council.
We, the undersigned, residents
in this Colony, beg respectively to submit to you the following facts relative to Alum and nine other prisoners, now under detention under Ordinance
2 of 1857, and also relative to 42 other prisoners similarly detained.
We submit that the first above-mentioned class of prisoners,
trial having been remitted after a period of
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