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ordinarily leaves the party to proceed by
indictment, but here,
ao
I have shown
before, there is a special reroon, that special
being, that there
reason
of proceeding.
no other mode
is no
levery information in this balony is
an ex-officio information.
10.
The law therefore is dear enough that I, wo, Acting Attorney General, had the
power to do that which I
did.
I trust however it is not necessary for Ime, through you, sir, to apo ure the Governor that I should not have taken upon myself
any legal right, if my doing so
to exercise
could be construed into
to himself any degree
into
have
one
an act discourteous
which could in
compromised the Government
of this baleny. On the contrary, I respect fully submit that had I made application to Hais Excellency for his sanction to
my
exhibiting there informations I should have acted wrongly.
Had I made such application there
would have been but three
courses
to His Excellency; first he might have
his sanction to
open
given
my liling the Informations, Secondly he might have desired me to abstain from liling them on thirdly he might have declived to interfere. Had the last course been pursued, matters would have been just as they the additional fact that an had been made to the Governor
subject.
are at present with
application
-on
the