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nons there. The Commanding Officer of the Ship might well be informed
such a summons had been issued by the Magistrate for an offence com-
mitted on shore by one of his crew, but it seems to me it ought
not to be served on board nor am I satisfied such service is sufficient
to support a subsequent warrant. On the whole I think the draft letter
as appended in red will suffice. As the German Officer did not send
the men to attend the summons I presume he only treated the handing
the summons to him as an intimation such a summons had been issued, and
could be served if the men were found on shore. But I strongly suspect
the Police Sergeant supposed he could properly serve the summons on the
men on board and in future it would be well not to get into this posi-
tion by acting with more deliberation and consulting the Attorney Gene-
ral before instead of after the event. I have not inserted any expres-
sion of regret in the letter, because in the first place the Consul's
account seems inaccurate and in the second there could at least be no
harm in giving a copy of the summons to the Commanding Officer on board
so that he might know it was issued though he had a right to regard it
as invalid on board. It will be well to await the Consul's answer.
20th December, 1895.
Sd. W. Meigh Goodman.
Attorney General.