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Connal of the 19th allo
when the case of
M.
Edward Butchinson
1 M.
Pillard one Connel in H. Ring.
L.S.
227
At the Court at Windsor Castle
The 19th day of June 1868
PRESENT
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
W
LORD PRESIDENT
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS
LORD STEWARD
MR. DISRAELI
HEREAS there was this day read at the Board a Report from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council dated the 16th of June instant in the words following viz:
“YOUR MAJESTY having been pleased by your Order in Council of the 4th November 1867 to refer unto this Committee the matter of the Petition of Edward Hutchinson Pollard one of Your Majesty's Counsel for the Colony of Hong Kong against the sentence passed upon the said Edward Hutchinson Pollard by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in that Colony on the 2nd day of July 1867 setting forth that the Petitioner is a Barrister at Law and one of Your Majesty's Counsel in and for the Colony of Hong Kong: that on the 2nd day of July 1867 the Honourable the Chief Justice of the said Colony of Hong Kong pronounced a sentence that the Peti- tioner had been guilty of contempt of the Supreme Court of the said Colony and adjudged that the Petitioner should be fined in the sum of Two hundred dollars and further that the Petitioner should be suspended from practising before the said Court as a Barrister and Advocate for a period of fourteen days or until the said fine should be sooner paid: that the Petitioner feeling himself aggrieved by the said sentence and being advised that the same was oppressive and illegal presented a Petition to Your Majesty setting forth the facts of the case and praying amongst other things that the said matter of the said Petition might be referred to this Com- mittee and the Petitioner now humbly prays that the matter of the said Petition and the several proceedings of the said Chief Justice in relation to the said sentence of
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