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Kinion of Honorable Inhan Panneehrte, Attorney General.

With regard to those Members of the Naval Yard Police Force who

were sworn in as

they

were on

Constables under

Section 2 of Ordinana. 12 of 1844

the praping of Ordinance 19 of 1862 entitled to enter the

Police Force established by the latter Ordinance and from the language of Section 27 they would seem to have been intensted to do so.

They do not however afpear to have been swom in under Ordinance 9 of 1862, and therefore do not come within its operation,

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although they remain Constables by virtue of their original appointment and swearing in. With regard to those Members

of the Naval Yard Police Force who have joined it since the Pasings Ordinance 9 of 1852, auch who do not appear to have been

sworn in under

any

Adinance

arc

whatever they have no sort of statues as Constibles- they simply Watchmen in the employ of the Naval Authorities

precisely upon the

and are

same footing

as the armed

Tehoys employed by Mehr Jardine Matheson He to guard