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16th November 1878.

We have the honor to acknowledge

11th Instant, auch und

(

Sir

{

receipt of you

your letter

you

to call a

Peace.

You give

ay

a reasou

To

regret the answer it conveys to our applications

with

meeting of the Justices of the

for unt complying

our request your opinion that the present

Goal regulations

auswert in

purpose for which they

valuable

Wed submit that

every way

were intended.

do

your awid opinion und redmit it to be of the efficiency

the Goal rules.

your declining

i not sufficient reason for

a meeting of

to summon

Justices when invited to do so.

a reconsilleration of your

Frequest

and we m

decision.

We desire to point out that by Section

10

of

of Ordinance 404 1864 under which we wish to act, it is laid down that at meeting

of Justices of

the Peace one of the Justices unit

be a Police magistrate, and that it is hardly to be supposed that in

chase

a right

in framing

intention to

give

this section

the Magistrate

to render sugutory the opinions of

Justices by a capricions refusal

the body of

to summon

C. V. Creagh Esq.

ex

meeti

attend chair lover to lie.

We have the

Dir

Your most & bedient Servants (age) W. Keswick

Acting Police Magistrate (%

M. Lowcool.

R. H. Laudeman J.D. Sassoon

H. H. Melone

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