CO129-151 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [7-8] — Page 152

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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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