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I allude is turfold, involving cxpense to the colon

Colony in the

cuetify of prisoners and the

maintenance of witnesses,

injustice to

and

to the prisoners under Committal, whose term of imprisonment before Trial might reasonably be shortened._._

3. Hitherts, under Regulan Generalis of the Supreme Court, dated jet March 1847, the Criminal Sessions holden were

in number, and

157

and this at the hottest and mat unhealthy

of the

year, during which rriconers

under committal were detained

in

Gaol, while us hardship would

have been entailed on the Supreme Court on it's officer:

had the Law rermitted its more

frequent sittings -

Mear the interval between cach

Year

4.

At the other times

the

sitting

was two months.

give April to 15th July

as

grom from this

5.

I submitted therefore to

latter dates to 15th October an

the

necessity of amending the

Legislative Council "the

interval

F

3 months occurred,