74.
Concur
in the reply
reply which I am
instructed to convey
His Excellency utterly disclaims any intention of casting a
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slur upon the character of the unofficial Magistrates — of accusing them of evil intentions or what is tantamount to a deliberate perversion of justice and violation of their oaths of Office.
Nor does he think his language fairly susceptible of such an interpretation.
He has had no object but to maintain in the great and general interests of the
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community the Supreme Authority of the Law, and does not think it necessary or becoming to enter into a defence of what is represented in your Communications to be "unconstitutional", "unjustifiable, dangerous and dictatorial proceedings".
The question at issue has been decided by the Highest Legal Authority in the Colony, and the conduct of the Acting Chief Magistrate taking the Justices' state they approve in all respects has been declared by the Chief Justice to have been illegal — and without excuse? The Mandamus granted by