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severely on Mr. Holdforth, Swould Remind

you,

that be a person who has been in the Receipt of a salary hardly sufficient for his

support in this most expensive of Colonice, the refunding of muney must be productive of. great inconvenience; and the hardship

will.

appear greater. that had there been

when it is considered-

any previous intimation

of the approaching Eductions, he would have

Situation.

It is the more

avoided such a contingency by designing his felt too by Mr. Holdforth, as he has decently, though the

misconduct of another person, sustained losses

of a larger amount

acc

from his

erving from.

former connection with the Supreme Court

of its officers.

as or

a

Sembrace this opportunity of urging

Request

that Sintended to make at ant

early date, had this occasion not,

4 presented

in Council will

itself, that His Excellency take inte consideration the propriety of

as in

163

Sydney, and I

Relieving the Sheriff, believe other Colonies, from the liabity he

now incurs

the

more

• by the excope of debtors ; a liability to the facility of excape,

· felt owing

from the prison and from the Polony, from

the forisan owing

to it's having been originally

a private dwelling house, and therefore not constructed with any view to the safe custory of its inmates ; and

· from the Colony from its vicinity to the mainland of China and to Macao ._ I do not ask to be relieved from

L

Reasonable Responsibility, nor to be shielded from the punishment due to a

negligent escape; but only from the Quinous consequences to myself which

Result from the present state of the law, by which the debt, however larger of

may

er,

escaped prisoner (

te

and in one instance

this has amounted to 94 or 25,000 $

Recoverable from the sheriff .

As

1 you,

Sir

are enabled by your