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power of decision.
(Signed) W. H. Mercer,
Celovial Secretary and Member
of the
Executive Council.
Council Room,
Victoria, Hongkong,
24th May, 1886.
By the
The Lieutenant Governor advised
as follows:-
"I do not consider it
desirable that the case between
the Chief Justice and the
Attorney General should be
investigated by this Council, for various reasons.
"1st. The whole matter
bears reference to an occurrence
which took place at the table of His Excellency and
I am therefore of opinion that the
Executive Council cannot consistently enquire into it.
quidly
I was a witness
before the Council, as well
Member of the Executive Council in November, 1847,
As A
which investigated a charge then made against the Honorable The Chief Justice; the whole proceeding most unsatisfactory to my mind, as will be seen by the Extract attached from the Proceedings, and I do not see how any investigation on the part of this Council could prove satisfactory in the present instance, - seeing that His Excellency The Governor, The Colonial Secretary
and