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nons there. The Commanding Officer of the Ship might well be, inforaed

such a suanoas had been issued by the Magistrate for an offence c01-

nitted on shore by one of his crew. but it seens to me it ought

not to be served on board nor am I satisfied such service is sufficient

to support a subsequent warrant. On the whole I think the draft letter

as apended in red will suffice. As the German Officer ed did not send

the men to attend the sannons I presume he only treated the handing

the sannons to his as an intimation such a summons had been issued, and

could be served if the aen were found on shore. Bat I strongly suspect

the Police Sergeant supposed he could properly serve the summons on the

men on board and in future it would be well not to get into this posi-

tion by acting with more deliberation and consulting the Attorney Gene-

ral before instead of after the event. I have not inserted any expres-

sion of regret in the letter, because in the first place the Consul's

account seems inaccurate and in the second there could at least be no

bara in giving a copy of the suanons to the Commanding Officer on board

so that he might know it was issued though he had a right to regard it

as invalid on board. It will be well to avait the Consul's answer.

20th December, 1895.

Sd. W. Meigh Goodman.

Attorney General.