CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10] — Page 127

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1/1⁄2 part 3 P.M. the preceding

11/2

day.

regarded my

I then regar position

no a

critical one,

feeling that I was liable

to an action, and

felt much pained that the

Governor of

not

the Jail had

& given me a remembrance of the prisoner's discharge

ted in accordance

to be effected

in

with the Horrorable the

letter.

Colonial Secretary's

Fortunately no such

ill results as

an action

will probably follow because (although doubted

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by the attorney who issued the Capias) the virtue of

the writ was exelinet -

from lapse of time . With respect

to the

In upon.

security bonds tathen the release of the prisoner.

I beg

to state that it was

clearly my impression that

such bonds would have

been eveented before myself because I was the Magistrate

who committed ahlum.

to prison. I do not know that either the sheriff, who until recently had the control of the Jail, or

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