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speeches of the Gibbous the Registrar in which after assuming himself as present, he expressed that a Reporter had expressed his desire to make a public utterance.
I beg to submit this public utterance by Mr Gibbous the Registrar to the consideration of His Excellency the Governor. I rest satisfied that His Excellency will take such steps on the matter as so grave a public scandal may require.
I have &c.
(Signed) John Smale. Chief Justice.
The subject being fully considered it is unanimously resolved that a letter be written by the Colonial Secretary to Mr. Gibbous Registrar of the Supreme Court informing him that the Chief Justice has called the attention of the Governor to the report in the "Whig mail" of the 21st instant of some alleged observations to be made by Mr Gibbous and enquiring whether the Report is substantially correct and if so what explanations he has to offer for publicly making such statement:
Read and considered a letter from the Military Authorities requesting a loan of the services of Mr Chan A Fook, a Clerk in the Surveyor General's Department, to translate a Coutreat for