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61/11

Crown Law Office
Brisbane 9^th Feb 1861

Sir,

In reference to your communication
of the 2^nd inst., reminding me that the
Prisoners named in the Margin are still
in confinement in the Lock Up at
Rockhampton awaiting my instructions
for release or committal, I have the honor
to observe.

1^st ... That in a letter Given this Office
dated the 6^th day of December 1860 N^o 60/180
in answer to a communication from the
Rockhampton Bench, requesting to be informed
whether the evidence contained in certain
depositions taken before one "Gulliver" and
one "Toby" in the Case of the Murder of the
late Fanny Briggs was in my opinion
sufficient to Warrant a committal
of Gulliver on that charge, I expressed
expressly informed the Bench that "it
"was not my duty to offer any opinion to
"the Bench upon the evidence taken in any
"Case until it came officially before me to

[written diagonally, in left margin]

"Toby" & "Alma" Abns