In Hercules Robinson
Houstons 9 May 1864
The Inke
to
7
Newcastle
3 Inclosures
Received
N6171864.
Transmitting the depositions Ordinance,
244
(Copy)
Preamble and reasons for passing Ordinance No.6 intituled "An Ordinance to render admissible in certain cases the Depositions of Witnesses who cannot be produced at the Trial and to make provision for the reception in evidence of the Statements of the accused."
The Statute Law of England as it was adopted in this Colony was very unsatisfactory in its provision for rendering the depositions of Witnesses against an accused person before Magistrates receivable in evidence on the trial of the accused in case of...