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:stion as to the
. the question
to the assigering by the
court of both Counsel and A
Capital
Attorney eases should again arise)
in
that
comply
with the
you will be able to
- wish expressed
in the minute of the 2nd Instant and adhere to the Opinions
and practice of the Chief Justice Sir
John Smale.
7.
It is hardly necessary for
unable to
in
agree
opinion
with
you
the Governor to add that though.
on
this question of not assigning
Attorney
art
in the SheK_0 murder case,
he does not imply the slightest
on
you
censure
in the matter. As you point
out in your
instant,
it
second letter of the 9th
was
only recently you
year
in the
discovered that the Governor had last allowed the Fee for the Attorney case alluded to by Sir John Imale to
be paid..
8.
The accounts of the Dupreme
Court for August 1877 containing the
Fee
for
the at
Attorney
mere
duly passed
by the Auditor after a special consultation with the Governor
as recorded in Mr.
:- Gardiner Austin's Minute of the 6th of
December 1877 but the Governor entertains
the Chief Justice's letter;
on
no doubt
that the passing of the August decounts
Supreme Court
of the Supreme
as
rendered had
entirely escaped Your Honour's attention
by an oversight for which he attaches
blame to no one.