CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6] — Page 197

before the Vico Rey,

owing

the

to-

an

general

and that evi

evidently

omission of his own; vz: –

disarmament of all Junts-

undur penalty of confiscation - His- Excellency should have intimated more clearly that he never intended this

i measure to latic place till in conjunction with the Chinese Government a fleet of

Gunboats of a superior class

Some To ov 12

to most of those out here

those out here now- had destroyed

the principal Pivatical haunts and swept

the seas

of

the Piratical Crafts

infesting them -

not even

Mar

Heis Excellency would

propose to name the date at

which it would be safe to insist on

disarmament which he

proproses

the

the

crowning Incasene of all- Moreover

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This Excellency would suggest that even

when such a measure could be initiated

witterat injustice no forfeiture of a sesel

ought to latie place without the sanction of some Court- approved by the Governor,

who would thins have it always in

hiv

power to mitigate the severity of the contemplated Law, so far

the action of

000

the cruisa is concerned and prevent it's

operating harshly to the fair Fonder.

It would be well that the Vice

Rey should also understand that Sir Richard Meae Donnell proposes Constituting

the more simple

a. Court

fer

and

expeditions trial of all Priney Cress- and that Cout. Could also have charge of sony case involving forfeiture

every

unda