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entertained, but it would be dangerous and improper to trust them in cases that involved either imprisonment, fine, or corporal punishment to the smallest extent, and the same objection is specially applicable to the individual alluded to in Lieut: Colonel Gregory's letter by the appellation of the Lord Mayor) who is a notoriously disreputable character, and has besides no claim to the post he holds at present as the head (Tepo) of the village of Chuck Choo.

To meet in some measure the difficulties of the matter under discussion the Governor in Council, requests the Honorable the Major General Commanding to order that the limits of the Cantonment at Chuck Choo shall be carefully defined and marked off by natural marks or where they do not exist by pillars being built, and as soon as this is done the limits will be published for general information and an Ordinance or Regulation will be framed and passed in Council providing for all offences committed within those limits as well as all claims for debts (both to a certain to be defined extent) being investigated and disposed of by Military Court of Requests, which can be appointed monthly (to sit once or twice a week as occasion may require) under such orders as the Honorable the Major General may be pleased to issue.

In conclusion I am directed to further communicate to you the opinion of Government that a Guard Room ...

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entertained, but it would be dangerous and improper to trust them in cases that involved either imprisonment, fine, or corporal punishment to the smallest extent, and the same objection is specially applicable to the individual alluded to in Lieut: Colonel Gregory's letter by the appellation of the Lord Mayor) who is a notoriously disreputable character, and has besides no claim to the post he holds at present as the head (Tepo) of the village of Chuck Choo.

To meet in some measure the difficulties of the matter under discussion the Governor in Council, requests the Honorable the Major General Commanding to order that the limits of the Cantonment at Chuck Choo shall be carefully defined and marked off by natural marks or where they do not exist by pillars being built, and as soon as this is done the limits will be published for general information and an Ordinance or Regulation will be framed and passed in Council providing for all offences committed within those limits as well as all claims for debts (both to a certain to be defined extent) being investigated and disposed of by Military Court of Requests, which can be appointed monthly (to sit once or twice a week as occasion may require) under such orders as the Honorable the Major General may be pleased to issue.

In conclusion I am directed to further communicate to you the opinion of Government that a Guard Room ...

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entertained, but it would be dangerous and improper to trust them in cases that involved either imprisonment, fine, or corporal punishment to the smallest extent, and the same objection is specially applicable to the individual alluded to in Lieut: Colonel Gregory's letter by the appellation of the Lord Mayor) who is a notoriously disreputable character, and has besides no claim to the post he holds at present as the head (Tepo) of the village of Chuck Choo.

To meet in some measure the difficulties of the matter under discussion the Governor in Council, requests the Honorable the Major General Commanding to order that the limits of the Cantonment at Chuck Choo shall be carefully defined and marked off by natural marks or where they do not exist by pillars being built, and as soon as this is done the limits will be published for general information and an Ordinance or Regulation will be framed and passed in Council providing for all offences committed within those limits as well as all claims for debts (both to a certain to be defined extent) being investigated and disposed of by Military Court of Requests, which can be appointed monthly (to sit once or twice a week as occasion may require) under such orders as the Honorable the Major General may be pleased to issue.

In conclusion I am directed to further communicate to you the opinion of Government that a Guard Room ...

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entertained, but it would be dangerous and improper to trust them in cases that involved either imprisonment, fine, or corporal punishment to the smallest extent, and the same objection is specially applicable to the individual alluded to in Lieut: Colonel Gregory's letter by the appellation of the Lord Mayor) who is a notoriously disreputable character, and has besides no claim to the post he holds at present as the head (Tepo) of the village of Chuck Choo. To meet in some measure the difficulties of the matter under discussion the Governor in Council, requests the Honorable the Major General Commanding to order that the limits of the Cantonment at Chuck Choo shall be carefully defined and marked off by natural marks or where they do not exist by pillars being built, and as soon as this is done the limits will be published for general information and an Ordinance or Regulation will be framed and passed in Council providing for all offences committed within those limits as well as all claims for debts (both to a certain to be defined extent) being investigated and disposed of by Military Court of Requests, which can be appointed monthly (to sit once or twice a week as occasion may require) under such orders as the Honorable the Major General may be pleased to issue. In conclusion I am directed to further communicate to you the opinion of Government that a Guard Room ... Page 623 was corrected to entertained, but it would be dangerous and improper to trust them in cases that involved either imprisonment, fine, or corporal punishment to the smallest extent, and the same objection is specially applicable to the individual alluded to in Lieut: Colonel Gregory's letter by the appellation of the Lord Mayor) who is a notoriously disreputable character, and has besides no claim to the post he holds at present as the head (Tepo) of the village of Chuck Choo. To meet in some measure the difficulties of the matter under discussion the Governor in Council, requests the Honorable the Major General Commanding to order that the limits of the Cantonment at Chuck Choo shall be carefully defined and marked off by natural marks or where they do not exist by pillars being built, and as soon as this is done the limits will be published for general information and an Ordinance or Regulation will be framed and passed in Council providing for all offences committed within those limits as well as all claims for debts (both to a certain to be defined extent) being investigated and disposed of by Military Court of Requests, which can be appointed monthly (to sit once or twice a week as occasion may require) under such orders as the Honorable the Major General may be pleased to issue. In conclusion I am directed to further communicate to you the opinion of Government that a Guard Room ... Page 623 However, to follow the format to the letter as requested: entertained, but it would be dangerous and improper to trust them in cases that involved either imprisonment, fine, or corporal punishment to the smallest extent, and the same objection is specially applicable to the individual alluded to in Lieut: Colonel Gregory's letter by the appellation of the Lord Mayor) who is a notoriously disreputable character, and has besides no claim to the post he holds at present as the head (Tepo) of the village of Chuck Choo. To meet in some measure the difficulties of the matter under discussion the Governor in Council, requests the Honorable the Major General Commanding to order that the limits of the Cantonment at Chuck Choo shall be carefully defined and marked off by natural marks or where they do not exist by pillars being built, and as soon as this is done the limits will be published for general information and an Ordinance or Regulation will be framed and passed in Council providing for all offences committed within those limits as well as all claims for debts (both to a certain to be defined extent) being investigated and disposed of by Military Court of Requests, which can be appointed monthly (to sit once or twice a week as occasion may require) under such orders as the Honorable the Major General may be pleased to issue. In conclusion I am directed to further communicate to you the opinion of Government that a Guard Room ... Page 623
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entertained, but it would be dangerous and improper to trust them in cases that involved either imprismment, fine, or corporal punishment to the

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