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find a
care under it" be then reas the Section, which was Section
VI (I believe) of the Stabeas Corpus
-Act,
tet, at
the
SarnC
arry
rate it was that
one about re-imprisonment for
Offence after deliverance Habeas Corpus.. As first time I had
on a
this
seen
Writ
Mas
of
the
over
the celebrated Stabeas Corpus
Act in so many words on Saper Iread it with considerable interest,
and the whole circumstances
are very strongly impressed on my Mr. Francis said again memory. "The Chief Justice sadly wants me to froecoute under this Section, but I cannot find a single case,
and I don't believe there ever has been one", and this observation
form or other he repeated several times. He went on to say
in one
how that there never had been a
Case unter that Section because the high penalty had deterred persons from rishing a prosecution, and informed me that the Chisp Justice had desired him to take proceedings in Admiralty for
the detention of the "Dolores Ugarte" but that he (Mr. Francis) has
not done so. _
The
impression left on my
mind certainly was that Mr Francis considered himself a
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