Records of the Cape Colony From February 1793 (Volume 1-35) - Livres de poche

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: death. This disposition of the Roman Dutch Law is perfectly applicable to the offence described in your letter, and has consequently, since the Proclamation of the 26th April 1816, been acted upon by his Majesty's Fiscal in a prosecution against Christian Philip Zinn, for having maliciously and wilfully caused to be registered as a Slave, and afterwards mortgaged a young girl, born from a Slave of his wife, which she had made free before her marriage, and which in consequence hereof had not been registered, pursuant to the said Proclamation, within six months after her birth; which prosecution was on the 2nd of July 1823 followed by a sentence of the full Court, whereby C. P. Zinn was condemned to a confinement at Robben Island for the space of twelve months. I have andc. (Signed) J. A. Truter. John Thomas Bigge, Esqre., His Majesty's Commissioner of Enquiry. [Office Copy.] Letter from R. W. Hay, Esqre., to T. P. Courtenay, Esqre. Downing Street, 31 August 1827. Sir, ?Having laid before Viscount Goderich your letter of the 28th instant I have received his Lordship's directions to transmit to you an extract of so much of His Majesty's Royal Charter as relates to the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at the Cape, in order to enable you to have a seal prepared for the use of the said Court. I am andc. (Signed) R. W. Hay. '. i V N - X. '.: ' O x/., ? S; ' r c t f. s f i, g V l' je I in chapter{Section 4 [Office Copy.] Letter from R. W. Hay, Esqre., to the Reverend William Carlisle. Downing Street, 31 August 1827. Sir, ?I am directed by Lord Goderich to acknowledge the receipt of your application of the 8th instant, and to acquaint you in reply that before his Lordship can decide whether h...