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Dear Sir,
Wednesday May 7th 1856.
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I shall be happy to respond to any official application you may think fit to make to me, and to state, that during the period you have acted as Assistant Magistrate, I have had no occasion to find fault with the mode in which depositions which have come before me have been taken by you.
The objection recently made by the Attorney General, to taking the evidence of a witness briefly as "Corroborative testimony" is one to which my attention had not been previously called, inasmuch as no witness whose evidence had been thus taken, was absent at the time of trial, so as to make it necessary to put in his Depositions. I may therefore safely assert, that...
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