HC Deb 22 March 1859 vol 153 cc527-8
COLONEL FORESTER

brought up the Queen's Answer to the Address presented for a Commission to inquire into the laws and Customs of Jersey.

Answer to Address [17th March] reported, as follows:—

I have received your address, praying that a Ropal Commission may be issued for the following purposes, namely:

  1. 1. To inquire into and report on the Civil, Municipal, and Ecclesiastical Laws and Customs now in force in Jersey, including the Laws relating to the tenure of land, trusts and uses, and also the rights of the Feudal Lords in the said Island:
  2. 2. To inquire into and report on the constitution of the Tribunals by which those Laws, Customs, and rights are administered, and into the practice and forms of procedure used by them respectively:
  3. 3. To inquire into and report on al defects in and abuses of the said Laws and Customs in the constitution of the said Tribunal, and in their practice and form 528 of procedure, and to suggest remedies for amending the same:
  4. 4.To inquire into the present state of Prisons in Jersey, and the mode of classifying Prisoners:
  5. 5. To inquire into and report on the administration of the several public Charities of the said Island:

And, having taken your Address into consideration, I have directed that a Commission shall issue for the several purposes mentioned in the Address.

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