The constitution abhors and will not tolerate the union of Legislative & Judicial power in the same body of Magistracy Because, as in this case, they will first make a tyrannical law, & then execute it in a tyrannical manner.

You have also assumed to yourselves more power than you are entitled to in relation to writs of , under your charter I know that you have been told by lawyers for the purpose of gaining your favor, that you have this power to any extent, In this they have deceived you for their own base purposes your charter supposes, that you may pass ordinances, a breach of which will result in the imprisonment of the offender

For the purpose of insuring more speedy relief to such persons authority was given to the Municipal court to issue writs of habeas Corpus in all cases arising under the ordinances of the . It was never supposed by the Legislative nor can the language of your charter be tortured to mean, that a Jurisdiction was intended to be conferred, which would apply to all cases of imprisonment under the general laws of the or of the , as well as the city ordinances.

It has also been reserved to you to make the discovery that a Newspaper charged to be scurrilous as a [p. 5]