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to Your Lordships.
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I also transmit papers in the margin containing full details of this case.
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It has been carefully considered in Your Lordship and those who have appended their names to it.
Minister of Executive Council
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The promoters of this Memorial. N. 3. Police Magistrate's letter of 1st May. Endorsed N. 4. Captain Superintendent's letter of ... Executive Council before whom the Captain Superintendent of Police was examined, and an unanimous decision arrived at (as to the necessity of Briarly's prompt dismissal).
An examination of the wording of the Memorial leads me to fear that it has been framed with a view to mislead Your Lordship. Those who appeal to Your Lordship have never made any enquiry into the facts of the case, which are placed in their true light by the accompanying papers.
I should particularly refer to the Police Magistrate's letter dated 1st May 1898, by which it will appear that Briarly did not comply with the order, which he made a pretext for resisting authority, till he had (with the best legal...