Excellency in maintaining the supreme authority of the law,
and it was because, in the case in question, the course pursued by His Excellency seemed to us in itself subversive of the law, because destructive of our freedom of action in administering and enforcing the law, that we ventured to record our opinions upon the subject in the emphatic terms quoted by His Excellency.
We have to
(Signed) Sam Gray, Chairman
Angus Fletcher 2.8.
(Signed)
A. Jardine.
A. C. Maclean.
Geo Lyall.
B. J. Still.
John Searth.
Rob. S. Walker.
Wm. Lamond.
Rickett.
John D. Gibb.
R. &. Antrobus.
Thos. J. Leslie.
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Excellency in maintaining the supreme authority of the law,
and it was because, in the case in question, the course pursued by His Excellency seemed to us in itself subversive of the law, because destructive of our freedom of action in administering and enforcing the law, that we ventured to record our opinions upon the subject in the emphatic terms quoted by His Excellency.
We have to
(Signed) Sam Gray, Chairman
Angus Fletcher 2.8.
(Signed)
A. Jardine.
A. C. Maclean.
Geo Lyall.
B. J. Still.
John Searth.
Rob. S. Walker.
Wm. Lamond.
Rickett.
John D. Gibb.
R. &. Antrobus.
Thos. J. Leslie.
True Copy (True
Colonial Secretary
15
263