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Meurt of this belang. Such to question
only be decided by the Supreme
court
brint itself and not as
as you suggest
by the Spanish Minister in London -
I have Yo..
(Signed) Cecil la Smith,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
Copy)
Mem: of Acting Attorney General).
475
The Spanish Consul takes an
view
of his status here,
when he claims the privilege of
way to the
administering the estate of any deceased person, without having recourse in the usual way Court of Probate. His official position confers no such right upon him, and he can only suppose
that
the precedents on the subject, which
existing among
he mentions as
records
escaped
the
of his office, have arisen from cases of which the proper authorities
have never obtained
any Knowledge:
most certainly the right has never been
recognized as appertaining to any foreign Consul here, or
in any
other