REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE PETITION OF DR. KINGDON.

Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives, 1856 Session I

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE PETITION OF DR. KINGDON.

EXTRACTS FROM THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Votes, No. 8, Thursday, May 1, 1856. 4. Petition of Dr. Kingdon Mr. East, pursuant to notice, moved, That a Select Committee be appointed to examine the petition of Richard Kingdon, M D., and his claim for coinpensation; committee to consist of Mr. Domett, Mr. Elliott, Mr. Featherston, Mr. Lee, and the mover; to report Thursday week.

Votes, No. 13, Thursday, Mat 8, 1856. 14. Petition of Dr. Kingdon —Mr. East, Chairman of the Committee to which this petition was referred, brought up the report of the Committee, which was read and ordered to be printed.

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REPORT.

The Select Committee of the House of Representatives, appointed May 1, "to examine the Petition of Richard Kvigdon, M.D., and his claim for compensation," report as follows:— The petition laid before your Committee discloses a case of considerable hardship, Dr. Kingdon having, as appears by the statements of the petition, been subjected to great expense, inconvenience, and loss of time, in attendance as a witness in the Supreme Court in Auckland, on the trial of Cupidy for the murder of Mary Rogers. The real evil your Committee considers to be, that the Supreme Court holds no assizes at NewPlymouth. The petitioner has been a sufferer from that state of things. But your Committee apprehend that many other persons in that Province, and indeed in all the Provinces, have been sufferers from the same cause; though perhaps few in an equal degree with the petitioner. The inconvenience of calling upon this House to make enquiry into every particular case of this description is so great as manifestly to amount to an impossibility, and your Committee have, therefore, resolved against making any recommendation of Dr. Kingdon's claim. , ALFRED W. EAST, Chairman. House of Representatives, May 8, 1856.