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stones already rotten in their
quarry.
I
9 humbly advise His
Excellency to cancel the
existing
Commission of the Peace,
and not to issue
one but
a new
upon mature
enquiry and deliberation
as to the
capacity of
those whom it is to
comprehend.
I further suggest that the Stipendiary Magistrates
should be reminded that in
accepting their salaried appointments, they
undertook
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the performance, each for himself, of the duties of an entire Bench of Justices;
and that they should be
warned that, if they
are
really unequal to the performance of these duties, their proper
course is not to
seek assistance from the
declared enemies of the legislative measures which they are expected
to
carry
out, but to resign. If His
Excellency indeed
proceed at once
by the
shorter method, and threaten
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