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being tantamount to a charge of deliberate perversion of Justice and perversion of violation & their oaths of office by certain of our fellow Magistrates, we felt bound to make the most careful enquiry into the facts.
In the course of that enquiry we ascertained that some correspondence had taken place, previous to the issuing of the Memorandum between the Government and the Acting Chief Magistrate in respect of the decisions of the Bench on the two occasions in question, which correspondence being called for by the meeting, such portions of it as contained any reference to the He Justices were submitted to us.
After careful enquiry into the whole circumstances of the case, as detailed in the correspondence and the statements made to the meeting by the four Justices referred to in the Memorandum, our unanimous opinion is that the allegations have no foundation whatever.
The cases for trial on the 23rd day and the 2nd [sic] of June were of vital importance to the Community and to the most material interests of the Colony, and the judicial examinations in these cases appear to us to have been conducted with the utmost conscientious regard to a just and true interpretation of the Law. Extraordinary efforts indeed were made by the Acting Chief Magistrate to secure the cooperation of the other Justices on those occasions. For what purpose? In the assumed, as is alleged, abrogating and annulling the Law? No. But in the purpose of giving the most scrupulous and careful consideration to an Ordinance that had only a short time before been passed, and of securing, in so far as it lay in his power, a just and equitable decision in the cases arising under it.
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