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the briminal side to the

Debtors

- prison after arrest. and I ultionately determined mentally not to arrest the

prisoner uspon

upon Civil process

actrally

until he was

released frour the Criminal prison, of which fact I

felt

assured I should know.

because that the

prisoner

the

had to give security.

The following days # July I neglected

intrination of

03/08

convey

ar

my

Governor

ted to

resolution to the

l, and

of the Jail,

I heard nothing

more

about. Ablum until the

norning of the Perangust, when I was incidentally informed of his discharge by the Colonial Secretary who called at the Magistracy

the

information so ~

much astonished me

that

for the instant I. could not realize it, however I went directly to the fail and ascertained

that ahlum had been

liberated, after giving securities (the bond

being evented before the Governor of the Jail) at