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American Citizens. Iname that of Mr. R.S. Stregis and Mrs. B.
Endicott, was included with mine in these
very
summonses of 23rd Their Buildings on Ducsen's Reed Central Vistaria, we actually
of May. Their Buildings
aoofed in though not completely finished" (su Section 11, Ordinance N°8′ of 1856) when they come attacked for a nonconformity
• in the basement Stories ! The decision of the Bench protected them, as already stated else it could have been hardly creditable to the Legislature of this Colony, that the property of American beterens ...
should have been destroyed, like mine, and confiscated lothi uses the British Creon, under the operation of an expert facts law. The legality of such a confixation would, I can assures have been Challenged by the American Authorities, (As was well known. hew at the time and a Protest upore these very grounds pee- -pared to meet any injurines isine,) and I affirms, She with
all respect, that;
& you
owe it to the action of the Bench of Justices have not at this moment an international quection.
that you
to deal with, instead of a
a
- mere municipal one, a question that would then have involved in the face of the world, a
huge
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Scandal upon the Executive of this Colony, as having sanctioned the confiscation of an Alien's property under the action of a actrospective Law and appropriated its proceeds to the uses Her Majesty's Inverment.
Ne 15 Finally for, and by way of whibiting that I did everything this matter which a dutiful subject of ther Majesty
in
of
in
could be
expected to do everything my power towards solving myself from loss, and the local Government from responsibility, I begleade to place in your
in 3rd -hands Copy of a letter which Irecend Sune, from the Honorable the Codmial Secretary, in this behalf.