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issued to them. This had necessitated Briarly being taken before a Magistrate when he consented to submit to the Examination, though it was only when threatened with the full penalty of the law that he did so. It was a very bad Case, and His Excellency proposed the Council should first consider what action, if any, should be taken against Briarly, and afterwards deal with the advisability of continuing the Regulation in its present form.
W. M. Deane, Captain Superintendent of Police, is called in, and in answer to questions put by the Council states:
"I consider Briarly to be a most turbulent and insolent man, and it would be unsafe to leave him in the Force. I do not think that he has done anything for the moment; and that he will seize the first opportunity of breaking out again. I consider Briarly, Starrey, Penn, Corcoran and Costello to be