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it under the hand of Governer Bowring himself in a public hitter to the Bench of Magistrates, that I had me appeal to a higher Court under writ of Artinari_ the brown itself having ou beness of appeal- was the infener Couch envested with exclusive jurisdiction
so jealousty
all issues under the Ordinance in question, and
over all
^
Finally I cannot aconcele it that Ber
Majesty's Government should thus ordain a Court with these absoluck and peremptny powers
the property of Star Majesty's subjects within this Colony and subse-
- quently nullify its action.
The fettlewing brief
of this case.
resume will serve to recall the leading facts
4. My walls were first impeached by summans before the appointed .
Cecut on the 23th of May 1856, and a decision which I certainly ventured to "ally expon" was pronunced in my faver.
5. They
6.
were impeached a second time before the same Thitunal (being the only Keibunal) on the 3th of June following, when a sound decision was punounced in my fava upon which I again
" to
aely
They
weu
and continued my works accordingly.
ventured
impeached
A
third time, not until the 20th August.
me a
following (the Executive of this Colony thus allowing mest injurious license of time to complete them!) when a Stipendiary Magistrate, (prot a bench of Magistrates as before) stating
In
Open Court that hefilt himself bound to defer to some induct opinion of His Hona the brief Suctive / though not judicially purneunced) to the effect that the former
decisions in
my fam
were
contrary
to Ordinance N°4 of 1856,
condemned