20.
paid.
case.
to the Crown in any
As regards the Animus
of which
you fear the
display, if any
shown of
or
An
such be
oppressive
or
litigious nature it would
be the duty of The Governor
at
once to repress it, and any wrongs proved under Exaction
of
be
Costs it would equally his duty to repair – But His Excellency Anticipates neither, and is further of
that
opinion
litigation
would be encouraged by not
compelling those who
vexatiously resist the Crown to pay
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the penalty
of their resistance.
One
only point more
demands an observation
from His Excellency and
that is your allegation that the Commissions hitherto issued by His Excellency have contained,
as a rule only Government Servants, and that hence they have failed to obtain the confidence of the Public;
His Excellency has