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Commissioners of Legal Enquiry in the West Indies 1826, unnumbered volume, Reports...
Catalogue reference: CO 318/66
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- CO 318/66
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1826
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Commissioners of Legal Enquiry in the West Indies 1826, unnumbered volume, Reports and Evidence in the Case of Lecesne and Escoffery. Commissioners Henry and Coneys. The volume contains numerous papers relating to the commissioners' report on the case of Lecesne and Escoffery, aliens removed from Jamaica by order of the governor, the Duke of Manchester, on 28 November 1823. The commissioners considered:
- whether Lecesne and Escoffery or either of them were born out of the Island of Jamaica;
- whether there was sufficient reason for imputing to them or to either of them any conduct or designs hostile to the peace and security of the Island;
- whether the proceedings in the Court of Grand Sessions were properly and fairly conducted in the case of these persons;
- whether the Governor in Council was in point of Law right or in Error in assuming the power to remove Lecesne and Escoffery from the Island after the decision of the Court of Grand Sessions in their favour;
- whether if the Act of removal was in strictness a legal act the Governor in Council exercised a sound discretion in having recourse to such a measure; and
- whether the Proceeding itself was attended with any undue or unnecessary severity in the mode of carrying the order into effect.
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See also Jamaica, Original Correspondence (CO 137/174-176):
See also, West Indies, Miscellanea: CO 320/4 CO 137/174 CO 137/175 CO 137/176
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- Topics
- International
- Litigation
- Caribbean
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Colonial Office and Predecessors: West Indies Original Correspondence
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