CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8] — Page 506

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" Supreme Court shall

to

" investigate the alleged ~

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crime in the

ao a

04.

dare mamur

Magistrati investigates

charge where a person

is accused of having

Committed an indictable

offence against the laws

the

exercise all the like

jurisdiction and powers

ao a

magistrate in such

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Alony

and shall

"cases: (Sex. 3 of draft.)

Attorney senerals notes.

502

Mr Knewell's Memorandum.

Attorney General's & Notes -

ministerial capacity. required to do. It it intended His discretion may be that the Governor should out

14 ore

if it is considered

xet

precisely limited judicially or only ministerially,

in ordering the surrender of the fugitive?

deeirable.

is force

of

4.

The draft further

proceeds to state that the contemplate any

The Bill does not

Judge if he finds probable

regular judicial

review by the Governor

cause shall commit the

offender to prison to await of the Judge's decision, the orders of the Governor, but and on

the other.

it does not state whether the hand it is not_

Judge is to transmit the intended that the proseedings to the Governor Governor should as the Magistrate is now act in a merely required

Ministerial

F. The draft propos

I think there to enact that the Judge

who

with a

in this objection commits the fugitive On the other hand it view to surrender, is to inform should be remembered him of his right to a

me

ht to a writ

that in praction, of Habeas Corpus. Now it Judges constantly sous le sue that this only sit in appeal upon gives a semblance of their

awn decisions. protection, for the Judge.

who had made the

who

I'd

I probably

as to

commitment would, have inuch to

the

Day

granting of the writ, or indeed might brineelf.

have to deal with his

own work; Theme two

are

only

lws Indges here, and often there is only

during

tive

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