which reaches me is the letter
the Chief Judge informing
the
maw
Colmy
6.
me
had been sent to this
It is not
of
that
for
me to question the validity of the Warrant of the Chief Judge, though having regard to the apologetic tone adopted by Sir Edmund Hornby as well as on other considerations, I think that the legality of the document is open
to doubt
Nevertheless, as the patient,
b. James Reddie
upon my
was
this thrown
hands I made the
best and most economical
arrange-
ments I could for his maintenance
(Vide No 11.)
and attendance.
I agreed
to leave
him in the Seamen's Hospital
to which he had been taken
on his arrival, and to pay for him and his Stoker, who had
%
Come
from Shanghai, at the rate
of £2.30
per Diem.
Meanwhile I called for
reports from time to time the state of Reddie's health, and I attach the last Certificate of
The Surgeon of the Hospital, which states that during his stay in Hospital he exhibited no sign "of unsoundness of mind, whatever may have been his former
condition."