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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.

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