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1015.

No. 446.

(GENERAL.)

LAW OFFICERS to COLONIAL OFFICE.

Lincoln's Inn, January 9, 1867. MY LORD,

We are honoured with your Lordship's commands, signified in Mr. Elliot's letter of the 2nd January instant, stating that recent occurrences in Jamaica have impressed on your Lordship the expediency of furnishing such guidance as the nature of the case admits of to civil or military officers who are called upon to proclaim martial law, or to act under any such proclamation, and

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That with this view the annexed instructions had been drafted with the advice of civil and military officers of experience, and your Lordship requested us to take them into our consideration.

Mr. Elliot was also pleased to say that your Lordship does not desire to obtain from us any opinion respecting the legal effect of a proclamation of martial law or of the immunity which such proclamation may afford to those who act upon it. But your Lordship requested that we would favour you with our opinion: Whether the annexed instructions, which it is proposed to introduce into the volume of Colonial regulations, are open to any objections in point of law, and, if so, by what modifications those objections would be removed?

In obedience to your Lordship's commands we have the honour to

Report

That we have considered the annexed instructions which it is proposed to introduce into the volume of Colonial regulations, and we are of opinion that they are not open to any objection in point of law.

We have, &c. (Signed)

The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,

&c.

&o.

&o.

JOHN ROLT. JOHN B. KARSLAKE. ROBT. PHILLIMORE.

016978.-140.

25,--5/84.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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