CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3] — Page 558

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presume is meant, the first summons citing to appear before the appointed

C

that Late.

hind

that summons,

Count on 23rd of is the firet potice of a Hand that of receivgal in the matter, he Captain in

Copper himself admitted repon the investigation of the case, as per copy of depositions append

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erque your

humble attention. To far from this

"first linterruption not making

me

the

paulty thats for faghuge that

have worked, the abog

the of and brickyard

of

lag witness, the

"the first,

décision

advoyse.

(decisign.") he

building up

to that

that they

first

hall entered into m

date!!

Gorzare not perfaps.

chargeds

aware,

offence Chart thing summonses was this :

d against me in the

that my buildings, in

not in

in

cation

now in progress, were - certain specifi-

a

down in the

My defence, hald

new Gaingne

of Magigtiates on popped by a full bench

was.

that gould not be held accountable

spacificasting

which was not

to

which

not.

in existence at the time. In the third occasion, this reasonable view

the

new

law

declared

f my materiale dignation of the Survey "at the absolute

Suwayor

agplaced 555 General ". How that dingation wasogercised,

and how little reason

Now I hady, from first to

last, to

rely repor

the fork

ce

the

Government of way olony, is already known to impress upon yourks whether

any

the

Live,

this that bat

on o

occasion

second or third interruptions,

"the result of an adverse fecisions under

law must have been the same absolute forfeiture.

new

namely to

work

an

alf the materials at stake. I will be

the Ordinance isteelf, cohather Enywayer-General

repon

the

By however immaterial, even contrapontion

of it,

compravention fo up export facts

though that

one

even

though it be the contravention of a specification

not in existence

that

was

respect) repon hig

on

the

contigvention, he feeding the simplest hd

ok in program adjudged and all its materials placed at

to have the work in

his

connexiong y, The,

with

Ordinance to 8 of 1356 iz

of Jon financepto ga of 1856).

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Surely,

such being the awon ogcasion of the first

the law, it was of word material to

consequence

me, on

interruption of 23rd May to rescue the base - -ment stores of my thile buildings from the

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