"the 2nd day of July 1867 may be investigated and inquired into and that the said sentence may be wholly rescinded reversed and expunged from the Minutes of the said Court or that the Petitioner may have such justice and redress as to Your Most Gracious Majesty may seem fit and proper THE LORDS OF THE COM- MITTEE in obedience to Your Majesty's said Order of Reference have taken the said humble Petition into consideration and having heard Counsel on behalf of the said Edward Hutchinson Pollard and having likewise been attended by Counsel on behalf of His Honour the Chief Justice of Hong Kong their Lordships do this day agree humbly to report to Your Majesty that in their judgment no person should be punished for contempt of Court which is a criminal offence unless the specific offence charged against him be distinctly stated and an opportunity of answering it given to him and that in the present case their Lordships are not satisfied that a dis- tinct charge of the offence was stated with an offer to hear the answer thereto before sentence was passed: their Lordships further report to Your Majesty that on the proceedings before them it appears that Mr. Pollard has received one sentence as for six several offences and that in the statement of those alleged offences in the Judg- ment pronounced by the Chief Justice their Lordships are not satisfied that each of the six amounted to a contempt of Court or was legally an offence: for these rea- sons their Lordships humbly recommend to Your Majesty that Your Majesty should be graciously pleased to remit the fine of Two hundred dollars which was imposed on the said Edward Hutchinson Pollard by the Order of the 2nd July 1867.”.
HER MAJESTY having taken the said Report into consideration was pleased by and with the advice of Her Privy Council to approve thereof and of what is therein recommended and to order as it is hereby ordered that the said fine of Two hundred dollars which was imposed on the said Edward Hutchinson Pollard by the Order of the 2nd July 1867 be and the same is hereby remitted. Whereof the Go- vernor Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong for the time being and all other persons whom it may concern are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
ARTHUR HELPS.
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