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echarge against

invectigate a charge

prisoner accused of

Av

indictable offence within the jurisdiction.

3. Under ordinary circum.

stances, and where a

Magistrate

is invectigating a

a case of aw indictable offence within the jurisdiction, his object is not

to deterinine whether

the

accused is guilty, but whether

there is sufficient to put the

his trial, or whether

accused

on

the evidence raises.

a strong

the

or probable presumption of

Where the Magictrate

guilt of

the accused.

4.

is proceeding

for

the purpose

of

of such aca

as that now

being considered, and acting

of

under the special provisions

the songsons Ordinance 2.

1850, his object is to determine whether there is "probable

of

has

ble cause

for believing that the accused

Committed the crime

with which he is charged.

In the present instaves

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the Magistrate having taken

the evidence has committed

the prisoners to await the Governor's orders; a

and it

must be taken that he has

done so because, upon the.

whole, it appears to hire that there is "probable cauce for

believing