32.
being issued pursuant to
the
request of Certain Justices
Can constitute such a difference
to render it on
document, or one in
irregular
proper to be
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Circulated – and I am therefore at a loss to comprehend what are the peculiar circumstances" stated to exist (in your Letter of 25th October to the Acting Chief Magistrate) unless it be that the case,
for adjudication Mentioned in Circular No. 1,
was under An Ordinance,
regarding the reading of which, the views of the Majority of the
Justices, were
opposed to the
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interpretation placed upon it by
His Excellency,
and that the Circular
was stopped, in order as far as possible, to keep those
Justices
from
attending
a case was going
about to be tried, and this prevent
their attendance on the Bench!
Although the Circular
Addressed to the Bench of Justices
was
seized, and returned
with His Excellency's instructions
that none similar should be
issued; no explanation was
vouchsafed to the Justices, of the
Reasons
for such interdiction, nor
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for the very Arbitrary, and apparently
discourteous Act
With all respect for the high office held by His Excellency, the Governor, I must decline to acknowledge, that his individual opinion is sufficient to control
the propriety of such a Circular,
the one in
question,
or
to
Authorize the discourtesy of which
I complain.
As a Justice of the Peace,
I am not prepared to expose
myself
to such unpleasantness,
at the hands of His Excellency
or
any
other Member of the