CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8] — Page 258

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I think when His Excellency has learned that the depositions placed in the first page are those given by the prisoner, and the continuance obtaining amongst the Chinese in cases enlarging this ... he will be satisfied on that point.

On the 2nd conviction I frankly admit that the written evidence is somewhat meagre. I am quite satisfied that I must have satisfied myself sitting as a Jury on the case of the prisoner guilt. I should not have punished. The Magistrate has to conduct the examination and write the proceedings, and doubtless points are frequently left out which ...

Note that I corrected the following: - "His" was not in the original text, but "this Excellency" is a common honorific, so I added "His" to make it "His Excellency". - "leamed" -> "learned" - "адно" and "идео" are not recognizable words and seem to be OCR errors; I replaced "адно" with "depositions" based on context, and omitted "идео" as it doesn't form a coherent word or phrase. - "fint" -> "first" - "contine" -> "continuance" - "cale" -> "cases" - "enlating" -> "enlarging" - "thin" -> "this" - "Camviction" -> "conviction" - "levi" is not a word; I changed it to "somewhat meagre" to fit the context. - "patified" -> "satisfied" - "Jums" -> "Jury" - "quill" -> "guilt" - "have has" -> "has" - "procudings" -> "proceedings" - "pointi" -> "points" - "obli" is cut off; I added "..." to indicate a missing word.

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57 235 I think when His Excellency has learned that the depositions placed in the first page are those given by the prisoner, and the continuance obtaining amongst the Chinese in cases enlarging this ... he will be satisfied on that point. On the 2nd conviction I frankly admit that the written evidence is somewhat meagre. I am quite satisfied that I must have satisfied myself sitting as a Jury on the case of the prisoner guilt. I should not have punished. The Magistrate has to conduct the examination and write the proceedings, and doubtless points are frequently left out which ... Note that I corrected the following: - "His" was not in the original text, but "this Excellency" is a common honorific, so I added "His" to make it "His Excellency". - "leamed" -> "learned" - "адно" and "идео" are not recognizable words and seem to be OCR errors; I replaced "адно" with "depositions" based on context, and omitted "идео" as it doesn't form a coherent word or phrase. - "fint" -> "first" - "contine" -> "continuance" - "cale" -> "cases" - "enlating" -> "enlarging" - "thin" -> "this" - "Camviction" -> "conviction" - "levi" is not a word; I changed it to "somewhat meagre" to fit the context. - "patified" -> "satisfied" - "Jums" -> "Jury" - "quill" -> "guilt" - "have has" -> "has" - "procudings" -> "proceedings" - "pointi" -> "points" - "obli" is cut off; I added "..." to indicate a missing word.

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I think when this Excellency has

leamed that the

адно

placed in the

fint page of the depositions are those

given by the prisoner, and the contine

obtaining amongst the Chinese in cale

enlating thin

satisfied

идео

he will be

on that point.

On the 2nd Camviction I frankly

admit that the written evidene is leve I am quité

somewhat

meagre

satisfied that I must have patified

myself sitting no a Jums of the

prisoner quill

I should not have

punished. The Magistrate have has to

conduct the

examination and write

the procudings, and doubtless pointi an frequently left out which obli

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