3rd December, 1850.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor,
The Honorable The Chief Justice,
The Honorable The Attorney General,
The Honorable David Jardine, Esquire,
The Honorable J. F. Edger, Esquire.
The minutes of the last Council were read and approved.
His Excellency The Governor then explained to the Council the reason for summoning them which was for the purpose of taking into consideration certain letters submitted by Messrs Rawle Drinker & Co., regarding the resort of Whale Ships to the Port and showing the desirableness of encouraging by every means the visits of the whaling fleet for refitting, procuring supplies, and making shipments, which would be of great advantage to the Colony, &c., &c.
His Excellency informed the Council that having obtained all the necessary information upon the various topics adverted to, and that as the Law as regarded Foreign Seamen was defective, he had had an ordinance prepared which he trusted would give the requisite protection to the owners of foreign vessels and other to encourage the trade and prosperity of the Port.
The Draft of the ordinance was then read and approved, entitled "An ordinance "to prevent the desertion of Seamen belonging to Foreign Ships and Vessels."
His Excellency also informed the Council that the Magistrates complained and justly 10, of the forms at present in use at the Court of Petty Sessions which required that the whole of the examinations of the witnesses and the accused should be taken down in writing, - thus much time was uselessly occupied and an accumulation of documents not always necessary to be preserved – His Excellency had therefore directed an ordinance to be prepared to remedy the complaint and to simplify the proceedings over which the magistrates had jurisdiction. The ordinance, entitled "An ordinance to regulate the "proceedings before Justices of the Peace" was then read a first time and approved.
(Signed) S. G. Bonham.
Read and approved, this 14th Day of December, 1850.
(Signed) Charles St George Cleverly,
Officiating Clerk of Councils.
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