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answer
to this letter and the whole of
· Mr. Gibbons' case the Executive Council
gave
him
unanimously advised me to
offer him the opportunity of resigning, and, in
the event of his not doing so, recommended that I should proceed
to suspension.
8.
Mr. Gibbons not having accepted the lenient alternative suggested by my advisers, the Executive Council finally recommended his suspension from Office and salary, which was duly carried into effect. We at once applied for leave of absence, which, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, I granted to him.
In the minutes of the Council
will be seen
Your Lordship will see that they also recommended that I should ask
Your Lordship not to dismiss Mr. Gibbons but to transfer him to some other Colony.
10.
Your Lordship will see also
that when I invited the members of Council
to favour
me with their views on
the
charges brought by Mr. Gibbons against the Chief Justice, they desired to leave that question to Your Lordship, to whom, at Mr. Gibbons' request, I had transmitted both sides of the
9. did not, however,
case.
disguise from the Council
my
opinion
that the Chief Justice had
satisfactorily answered Mr. Gibbons'
charges.
11.
On the whole I believe the