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8th of February, the day after the warrant was issued and executed; that Taylor was fined ($50.00) Fifty Dollars and that Judgement was rendered against him for the fine and costs - the whole amount being ($58.25) Fifty Eight & 25/100 Dollars. The result of giving the appeal bond was to carry the case from the Justice Court to the County Court, and to supercede any execution in the Justice of the Peace's Court until the case was heard and determined in the County Court. The case was not put on the docket of the County Court, nor tried there, for the reason, as I am informed by the County Solicitor, that the Court and himself, Considered the Vagrancy act, under which Taylor Skinner was prosecuted, repealed by the adoption of the Penal Code, which went into force the 1st June 1866. I can find no evidence on the records of the Court of anything being done with the case after it was sent to the County Court. The regular Course would have been to have put the case upon the docket and then to have entered a nolle prosequi. I shall recommend this Course to the Court Solicitor.

After thorough investigation, I can find no evidence of Taylor Skinner being troubled with the case, after filing his appeal bond, nor of any case of Vagrancy being prosecuted in the County Court of this County under the Vagrant act approved 15th December 1865.