52
53
214
and
awa we
feel bound, with all respect for His Excellency and deference to his
Minions, to record our
emphatic protest
against the dangerous principles
upon which the Memorandum heads
and
the
with
against
all attempts whatever
part of the Executive to interfere
in any way to restrain or
in any way
influence, either directly or indirectly, the perfectly free and independent action of the
Magisterial Court in this Colony.
In conclusion we assure
beg you will
that while we have
His Excellency thus as freely and faithfully as the occasion demanded, submitted to him our sentiments in regard to the opinions His Excellency has expressed respecting
the Magistracy,
we are at the same
time fully impressed with the dignity
of his office and sensible of the duties and respect which are
which
we
are owing
to it, and
will always gladly render.
We have, &c.,
(Signed) Sam Gray, C.I.
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Chairman of the Meeting
Peace
& Custices of the Peace on the 25th Instant. I. Jardine. A. C. Macdonald. C. E. Still
John Scarth-
Robt S. Walker
John Rickett
John D. Bibb
HongKong