CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862 — Page 211

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up of goods

by the Superintendent

ought not to have been made subject, (as it appears to have been), 10 an undertaking, on the part of the Claimants,

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pay any portion of the general expences of the Police, incurred with reference to the

e goods in question. For instance, as appears by the setter of the Deeperintendent of Police tothe Colonial Secretary, of the 27th August 1862, a part of these expenses consists of outlay in the detention of the mate and blerk of the "Tropic", " for the purpose of giving evidence on the trial of Stanford.

This out

!

outlay is a

part of the ordinary

Costs of the Prosecution: and ought.

tobe bome, in one

way or

other,

by the public; and not thrown

on individuals, themselves the special victims of the crime which is the subject of the Prosecution. We recommend, therefore, that no- part of the expences of detaining the Make and blerk, orof the general costs of the Prosecution of Stanford, should be required tobe paid by those to whom portions of the

good have been delivered; whatever the

antees

terms of the guaran

been.

do

may have

The borrespondence laid before supplies very scanty particulars

of the judgment and execution

Calling m

obtained