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auciet proecedings before the Supreme Court of this Colony.

The one is "To" amend the Law of Evidence and the other "To facilitate the administration Criminal Justice. They have Men taken from the Two late

the Imperial Parliament

Acts of

Capp: 99 and 100, XIV and XV. Victoria M & is almost

literal adaptation

the

Inserial Act, and N4 has only two points, and there trifling importance, differing in substance from the Original in clause XVII Tem is substituted is substituted

for Twelve years of age,

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and

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claure XV is an entire introduction,

changing the notice

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provided

given to Criminals, as by the Regula Generalis March 1847, from Ien to Five

Days,

of

an alteration that seems

very advisable, as

likely in some

measure to

prevent

it the inconvenience of postponing

a

Trial through a Seccions while

the Prisoner ample

it still

time to

gives

prepare

his

defence.

I am convinced that there

Ordinances will not fail to

give very general satisfaction in their operation, and I have therefore in hesitation in