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1777. Sessions. Thursday Dec. 18th

Thursday Dec. 18th 1777.
Present
Impey
Chambers
&
Hyde.

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Rosun.
Indicted for the Murder of Bahady.
In this case [and the like were in several others] there was deliver’d to the Clerk of the Crown, a paper call’d an Inquisition taken on the body of the deceased, in that Paper call’d [Bhaddie? Bhaddu?], before William Atkinson, Gentleman, but no proceedings were had before the Sessions on this Paper, nor as I think legally could be. Although I think it very conducive to public Justice that there should be such an Inquiry.
Mr. Atkinson is commonly call’d Coroner, but the whole Court unanimously, while my brother Lemaistre was alive agreed in Opinion that he was not a legal Coroner, because the Company have no authority by Charter to appoint a Coroner. We all four join’d in a Letter to the Governor-General and Council dated Oct. 31st 1777 in answer to a Letter from them to us desiring our opinions relative to the pretended inquisition, before Mr. Ram the
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