the suggestion made on previous imprisonment for debt in this Colony should be abolished, I have the honour to transmit for Your Lordship's information copies of reports subject from Sir George Phillippo, when Chief Justice of this Colony, and from the present Chief- Justice, Sir James Russell,
us occasions that
on this
which have influenced ~
this
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this Government in not_ abolishing such imprisonment. I lately referred these
reports to M. Ackroyd who was at the time
asting temporarily as Chief Justice, and to the Acting Attorney
General, with a request that
they would inform
ne
whether they considered, that the reasons advanced
and
by Dir George Phillippo Sir James Russell against the abolition of imprisonment.
for