justices of the peace, invariably decide all cases arising under that station according to their supposed view of its being not retrospective, but succeeded in persuading a meeting of rate-payers, to whom they undertook to expound the law they had been administering, that it is retrospective, and therefore the grievance which the amending hand of the Legislature alone can remove.
It is not the less true that Mitchell continues to invite them – and only when Ordinance Nos. of 1856 is under review – to set him superfluously by his side and very properly as one to control him upon a question which he dare not decide according "to his own inclination". That inclination is guided and governed by the fact of record in your department that Mr. Mitchell is a prominent Member of the class of nuisance doers against whom the Ordinance of 1st July 1856 were chiefly directed – that he has building speculations in partnership with the now