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(referred to in my special report of June 10th) and sentenced to pay a fine of from $7.50 to $15.00 each, with the costs of the trial, it is thought that the penalty for breaking the law, should have been the same in each case, and all the parties engaged in it required to share equally in the punishment meted out to them. This however was not the case, as one or more who took part in chastising Goff, for illicit co-habitation with another man's wife, were not tried at all, while others were dismissed without fine or costs - and Goff, who acknowledged the charges made against him, was dismissed without any notice being taken of his offence. The parties convicted claim that all were equally guilty in breaking the law, and do not deny the part they took in it, although under peculiar circumstances; and regret very much their action in the matter 
   
All they ask, that the fine and costs might be equally divided among them, and as little as possible, on account of this being their first offence, and the necessities of their families require most if not all of their earnings.

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