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As His Excellency is pleased to state, we have received ample testimony. A communication to the Government under this date by the four now Official Justices, in which they joined in those decisions, was read "to the general meeting of Justices and received its unanimous approval; and we now respectfully beg to inform His Excellency that while we most sincerely regret being compelled to differ from him in opinion upon this subject, we do most cordially and fully assent to and confirm, in every particular, the view taken of His Excellency's Memorandum by those four Justices,
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and the opinions respecting it expressed in this communication to the Government. We further most respectfully beg to inform His Excellency that not only does there appear, in all respects, the conduct of the Acting Chief Magistrate of the ... and the Justices concerned upon the occasions in question, but that we have the most perfect confidence in their unbiassed and conscientious integrity of purpose in administering the Law generally in their official capacity.
His Excellency was pleased to conclude the Memorandum with an exhortation to the Justices generally to observe and promote the unity...