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I were weared to the

he afterwards cut them down - in other words, they, height of the bressummers over the front doorways, which he left eindemolished, and which is the level of the first Mory.

summons citing

By first interruption " I pecume is meant, the fest, to appear before the appointed Count on 1371

of May. Fn that Summons, on that date, was the first notice of any kind that I received in the matter, as Captain Cooper himself admitted spon

mi

oath, onthe investigation of the case, as per Copy of Depositions appended Now Sir, to this point I would humbly

crave your

attention.

So far from this fuct interuptan not making any trakirial con-

- sequence tome, it could, if the first decision had been advene. ( as witness the result of the final decision!) have worked the absoluk

forfeiture of every plank and brick and builder that had entered

my buildings up to that date !

into

You

are not perhaps • aware, that the offence charged against in the first, second, and third summonses was this that buildings, in progress, were not in conformity with a Certain Specification laid down in the New Ordinance.

: good by a full bench of Magistrates

My defence held good by

fist occasions

me

my-

the live

occasions was, that I could not be held accountable for non-conformity to a specification which was not before one - which

was not in existance at the time. On the third occasion, this reasonable view of the

item of

my

new law

was reversed, and every

Materials was declared as placed at the absolute discretion of the Surveyor General ! How that discution was exercised, and hew little acason I had from first to last, to rely upon the forbearance of the Government of this Colony, is already known to

you.