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an Ordinance of this

character

justifiable, the Soject might be

abtained both enor

Surely and

with less vistence to the gennal principles of law and justice by The Community at once

placing

under Martial. For more

proferly

Military) Law. The effect of

this change is to suspend the action

tribunals in

of the ordinary Military it the arbitrary Sotermination

cases, and to substitute,

for

of

the Officer in Command who monally, though est recibarily, tries offences

by Const Martial. I transmit

to

you Cofery of a Proclamation for Fringing Martial Law into effect legton in 1849, and also of

mi

an Ordinana

Colony

papped

I in that

on the termination of Martial Law to indemnify parties

who had acted in furtherance

2.*

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fi

for last paragraph

of Marey

7

be subst

If the possession of

This power by the local Govern

ment

is still insufficient to preserve the peace of the community from imminent danger, recourse might be had to the proclamation of Markal (properlyhilling, Law, as a

les" Dejectionable

in itself

Than an Ordinance

than

measure.

altering the ordinary law of the Colony to es great an extent