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Letter from G. Murray to Lt. Gov. P. Maitland regarding previous corrspondence regarding Peter Paul, a Mi'kmaq man convicted of murder, enclosing "His Majesty's pardon" for Mr. Paul on condition that Paul serves two years. Also includes a copy of a letter from Phillips to B.W. Hay advising that Robert Peel has recommended to the King that Paul's sentence be commuted to two years but nothing that if the Lt. Gov. feels the sentence should be even shorter, in the interests of justice, then he may shorten it. "Whitehall 19 Augt. 1830."
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Whitehall
19 Augt. 1830
Sir,
I have laid before Secretary Sir
Robert Peel, your further letter of the
[6th] instant relative to the case of
Peter Paul,; and I am to acquaint you
for the information of Sir George
Murray, that under the circumstances
therein stated, Sir Robert Peel has
felt himself warranted in advising
His Majesty to commute the Prisoners
Sentence to two years Imprisonment,
a Warrant for which
Purpose is herewith enclosed. But
if the Lt. Governor of Nova
Scotia considering the peculiar
circumstances of this case should
be of opinion, that a shorter Term
of Imprisonment will satisfy the
[RW.] [Hay].
&c &c
Date: 1830
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 170 1/2