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which, if true, involved an act of corruption upon my part either positive or constructive.
Two days later, or on the 16th following, a second charge was made against me before the same high Authority, by Her Majesty's Attorney General alone - to the effect that I had been guilty of gross malversation of my office as Police Magistrate of this Settlement.
I held myself ready, as best I might, to answer each of those grave charges. After due investigation on the part of Government into the Attorney General's charge of Magisterial misfeasance, I had the honor of receiving intimation that that charge was completely disproved to His Excellency's satisfaction.
As regards the other charge - that of misfeasance in my Office as Sheriff, it appears I have not been so fortunate, and my exculpation has not been held so complete. On the contrary, it has been pronounced "unsatisfactory." After two separate sittings of the Executive Council, in the investigation of this charge, during which the only opportunity afforded me of disproving it was by answering certain written interrogatories, my request to be summoned personally before the Council and confronted with my accuser was refused by His Excellency.
I had the pain of receiving His Excellency's intimation that the charge, as far as the Executive Council was concerned, was closed on the grounds that that Tribunal was no longer competent for the due investigation of it.
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