Is that from on you give for resigning the statements recently made in the Legislative Council? Voy Couricibly this Excellency the Governor, think that it is your duty as Visiting Justice of the Gaol to examine the books and ascertain that no illegal punishments have been inflicted and that sentences carried out are authorised.
You say at your disposal it would be in possible for you to enquire into the Sentences of prisoners several hundreds. Iand to remind you that His Excellency did not express firmior that it was the duty of a Visiting Justice to see that no wrongful sentences were carried out.
"It would be improper and indeed improper for a Visiting Justice to sit in judgment on the hundreds of sentences The Governor you refer to. that the offences Conw ving properly intion the sphere of a Visiting Justice, are those known as prison offences, and that it was perfectly clear from His Excellency's speech in Council that it was only to those wordy offences, d in the remarks to which he referred in the you allude.
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