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instructed by the brown Solicitor to settle the necessary Informations. This he did in accordance with precedent, and, I resettled
them as Acting Attomey General.
and signed them as
The Same
were
Supreme bannt.
الله
may
be
alterwards liked in the H
as well to state that to the
form of these Informations no slejection has
ever be
been taken by the fecunsel for the Defendant.
4. I new froued respectfully to state the grounds on which I submit I was justified
in the
course
which I adopted, and for
jthis funpose it is ne
necesary for
me
to
festablish two propositions first, that the
proper mode of bringing these cases the cognizance of the Supreme Court
before
was
the filing of Informations by the Attorney General; Seconally, that the obtaining the
sanction of the Executive is not
necepary
to the filing of such informations. 5. My first proposition is that for the purpose of bringing there
cases under
the cognizance of the Supreme bount the
pling of an Information
proper mode is the filing of an
signed by the Attomey General.
By the
the law of England there exist
four modes
the
by
which in cases
of libel
party agguived may obtain recrefs. first he may bring
an action for damages.
against the party defaming him. Secondly The may proced by indictment, thirdly, he may apply to the bount of Queen's Bench for a criminal conformation and lustly the