CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12] — Page 313

which reaches me is the letter

the Chief Judge informing

the

maw

Colmy

6.

me

had been sent to this

It is not

of

that

for

me to question the validity of the Warrant of the Chief Judge, though having regard to the apologetic tone adopted by Sir Edmund Hornby as well as on other considerations, I think that the legality of the document is open

to doubt

Nevertheless, as the patient,

b. James Reddie

upon my

was

this thrown

hands I made the

best and most economical

arrange-

ments I could for his maintenance

(Vide No 11.)

and attendance.

I agreed

to leave

him in the Seamen's Hospital

to which he had been taken

on his arrival, and to pay for him and his Stoker, who had

%

Come

from Shanghai, at the rate

of £2.30

per Diem.

Meanwhile I called for

reports from time to time the state of Reddie's health, and I attach the last Certificate of

The Surgeon of the Hospital, which states that during his stay in Hospital he exhibited no sign "of unsoundness of mind, whatever may have been his former

condition."