Allegiance,
save when advised
that a particular Officer required, either by Imperial
is
local law, to take
other oath
Statute
or
any
5.
From the whole tenor of that Despatch and looking to the special evil which it was - most probably intended to remedy, it seems to me that it never was contemplated that a Governor should no longer
administer to holders.
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important Offices, such as hxecutive Councillors - Judges-
and Legislative Councillors, the
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baths of Office - peculiar to the high trusts verted in those personages_ and sanctioned by at least long and venerable
usage, if not by "Statute or local Law."
6.
I was Governor of South
Australia in 1857 when that Circular despatch
was received,
but it did not occur to me
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my
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legal advisers to read it as abolishing the peculioe onth Office taken by beecutive Councillors, who swear to keep the Governor's Counsel - to divulge to him all treasons - and to be