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I delayed making my opinion Paper, until I turned to an examination deemed
Ispeaking to the Memorandum upon it :
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I did only on Saturday:-
be aques with me in attaching a good deal of weight to the arguments of Mr. Smale, and Jan Skuil
I have to thank you for your kind summis, it is really painful to say a voluntary holinioniune in Bulionibu.
at any rate I hesitated to fui Exfent fento the application in this case.
The honourable Bar
Such as it? be perhaps rotten at the core is the Merit for its faithful discharge & duty + Aufiduum in time hocams Should
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El 2 Jul. 1866.
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I have delayed the decision of this case longer than I could wish and all the more that I come to a different conclusion from that arrived at by Mr. Cordwell.
This
by which Mr. Smale might have had this present offered to him for his acceptance
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large private practice
as a successful lawyer enjoying the leads of the bar
but I think it is of the Address that it was in his last capacity that this gift was intended.
The Colonial regulations apply specifically to holders of public office alone, but the 8. aphew conter letter of the 22 Sep. lays down that the rule with regard to presents is applicable to all Colonial officers: and it approves more clearly than to those who are connected with the legal and judicial business of the Colony.
It must be borne in mind that Mr.