1/1⁄2 part 3 P.M. the preceding
11/2
day.
regarded my
I then regar position
no a
critical one,
feeling that I was liable
to an action, and
felt much pained that the
Governor of
not
the Jail had
& given me a remembrance of the prisoner's discharge
ted in accordance
to be effected
in
with the Horrorable the
letter.
Colonial Secretary's
Fortunately no such
ill results as
an action
will probably follow because (although doubted
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by the attorney who issued the Capias) the virtue of
the writ was exelinet -
from lapse of time . With respect
to the
In upon.
security bonds tathen the release of the prisoner.
I beg
to state that it was
clearly my impression that
such bonds would have
been eveented before myself because I was the Magistrate
who committed ahlum.
to prison. I do not know that either the sheriff, who until recently had the control of the Jail, or