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conduct the Aiminal casn at the fresent to me Lesions. He thereupon requested to produce my authority. As I had yesterday furnished him, at his request, through the Crown Solicitor, with the Colonial Secretary's letter dated the 12th instant I told him I had no document to produce other than that.
To this he replied that he could not take judicial notice of anything unless produced to him in Court. I then requested the Crown Solicitor to return to me the letter which I caused to be delivered to his Lordship, but I stated in distinct terms that although that letter bore date the 12th instant, the day on which I was nominated and appointed by four Counsel to the Informations, I did not receive it until Saturday last.
I then informed the Chief Justice, in answer to questions put by him to me, that I was unable to state exactly any particular words used by four Counsel whilst nominating and appointing me, but that as I had refused, when applied to by the Crown Solicitor, to sign the Informations without full authority from the Government Office, and had agreed to receive it, I thought it might fairly be presumed that everything necessary for conferring that authority had been done by the Government.
We then wished to know what the Colonial