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has been laid before the Governor in Council)
His Excellency does not think it desirable farther to discuss divergent opinions as to the relative position and duties of the Executive Authority and the Justices of the Peace, as the whole of the correspondence will be forwarded to Her Majesty's Government.
But as the letter under acknowledgment appears to re-iterate an impression that the Chief Justice has not expressed his opinion as to the proceeding of the Justices in the cases brought before them under Ordinance No.8 of 1856; Sir John Bowring feels again compelled to state that the decision of the Magistrates on the 25th May (or 23rd and some date in) June was the subject of discussion in the Legislative Council, on which occasion (in the presence of one of the Magistrates who had been party to that decision) and with the unanimous concurrence of the Council His Honor declared that the Ordinance