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I, Peecy Howaed Hendebson, of 4, New Court, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of London, England, a member of the Institute of Shorthand Writers, in the employment of Messrs. Walsh and Sons, of the same place, shorthand writers, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows :— 1. I was present in Court of Appeal No. 11. on Tuesday, the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, at the Boyal Courts of Justice, Strand, London, England, before the Bight Honourable the Lords Justices Lindley and A. L. Smith, when the Bight Honourable the Lord Justice A. L. Smith, on behalf of the Bight Honourable Lord Halsbury, the said Lord Justice Lindley, and himself, delivered a considered judgment in an appeal from a judgment of the Honourable Mr. Justice Bomer, delivered on the eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, in an action (1893, C. No. 2608J between the Cassel Gold-extracting Company (Limited), Plaintiffs, and the Cyanide Gold-recovery Syndicate (Limited), Carl Maria Pielsticker, and Thomas Gilbert Bowick, Defendants, and which appeal had been argued on the thirteenth, the fourteenth, the fifteenth, the eighteenth, the nineteenth, the twentieth, the twentyfirst, and the twenty-second days of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. 2. On behalf of the plaintiffs and appellants in the above-mentioned appeal, I took verbatim shorthand notes of the judgment so delivered by the said Lord Justice A. L. Smith. 3. The print which is now produced to me as an exhibit marked " B " has been compared by me with my original notes of the said judgment, as so taken down by me in Court on the said ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and as the result of such comparison I find that the same is a full, true, and accurate transcript of such notes so taken by me as aforesaid. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of " The Statutory Declarations Act, 1835." Peecy Howaed Hendebson. Declared at the Mansion House, in the City of London, this first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, before me—Joseph Benals, Lord Mayor, London.

To all to whom these presents shall come, I, Sir Joseph Benals, Kt., Lord Mayor of the City of London, do hereby certify that on the day of the date hereof, personally came and appeared before me Peecy Howabd Hendebson, the declarant named in the declaration hereunto annexed, and by solemn declaration, which the said declarant then made before me in due form of law, did solemnly and sincerely declare to be true the several matters and things mentioned and contained in the said annexed declaration. In faith and testimony whereof, I, the said Lord Mayor, have hereunto signed my name and caused the seal of the office of Mayoralty of the said City of London to be hereunto put and affixed, and the print marked " B," mentioned and referred to in and by the said declaration, to be hereunto also annexed. Dated in London, the first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. Joseph Benals, Lord Mayor. Feank S. Jackson, Begistrar. Approximate Cost of Paper .—-Preparation, not given ; printing (1,250 copies), £15.

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