CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 119

of these considerations, to diminish

ad

much as possible the expenses-

of the Judicial Department, which

with the Magisterial and Police,

of the Civil Gevemment of the

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But I must

Colony Enjoys of inaction .

the

Aare

interval

not leave out of

consideration

the untried prisoners, whose fate.

form nearly one

half of the

civil charges of

the

Colony.

The

it

may

exhenses accruing from the

detention and compensation of

witnesses. are

to be added to those

of untried Prisoners.

It appears to myself that, in lieu of a period of nearly

Dive months between live Criminals

Sessions, vocation extending

a

over

the three hot months of July, August, and September, would. provide sufficiently for the health

and

convenience

of

the officers

of the Supreme Court ; nor ame I aware that

other branch.

any

of

be to be incarcerated

during the greater part of the

most oppressive

Year..

42.

Season of

the

The enclosed letter

addressed to the

to the Chief Justice =

submitting the expediency of

PACKA

ifth abridging the period of the long

best simply

Hat was

vacation; but it will be observed

the Reply, also enclosed, that a copy of the Rules of

from

Court

answer,

Ca 2

merely sent in co and I was also referred

to a particular Ordinance.

A clause No H,

ADOLL

introduced