CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6] — Page 425

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oldinically, and if my decisioar of the 4900 of May last had

lait had reached England

and if the Law Officers had read my decision, the result of much research and thought, I indine to think they would have acceded to my opinion that he is exempt from the general

rule.

I had camp

delivered

en..

decision

wy

the 29th of March & printed

in a Supplement to the "Daily Pref"

en

a

the 20th of April Cost, by a procef

of reasoning which I thought complete

to the decided conclusion that the

"Nawelle Penelope "

and therefor

Mas a

-Slave Ship

Pirate Ship writin the

olear intent and meaning of 5 Geo. 4.

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