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to me aport from any objection technical or otherwise to the legality

of the enviction is whether

is shown to be a perom

the primer

or not-

who for the peas and good order of the lealmy it is desirable to remmes

With regard to the 194 Couestion

I think there

ean

the evidence, if it

be no doubt that

Who

to be believed,

justified the enviction, and undir 7 of 1868 $28, might have been Kept in penal sumitude for 14

дето imprisonment with hand labor for

to

2

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years, solitary emfinement, and if under 16, with a whipping.

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The prismer in the opinion of the Magistrate did not excund the

age of 16 year I presume, and Dale presume that he revived the sentence

of 2 fleggings under 9 of 1867. § 6.

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"With regard to the 2nd Cannidion from the traneipt of the widense before me I do not know that if 5 had been atting as Magistrate I chuld have envicted, but the Magis= brate had the opportunity of heming the evidence and better means

of

judging. The prismer acted certainly sis

amal

Suspicions least, and I have

doubt go

to his

wamumew

quill

very

to say the little moral

The

remarks

-first-

as to his punishment in the

ease apply equally to this.

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With regard to the Fit Commistion