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I certainly thought that would be the light in which I should regard it, when the point to be settled.
I would therefore in conclusion, respectfully submit that I have not merited the censure which His Excellency has passed upon me.
That the Acting Attorney General entertains an erroneous conception of his duties in imagining that it is his province to gratuitously criticize the proceedings of the Magistrates, and lecture them on their duties while they are conducting their cases.
That the Government in adopting and acting upon the Acting Attorney General's advice, deviated from constitutional principle respecting the interference with the Magistrate's discretion, and that the same remark applies to the letter which I received from the Government at the commencement of the proceeding and which I have already quoted.
Lastly, that on the point of the bearing of the Attorney General to the Magistrates, the Acting Attorney General was in exceeding his powers in ordering the Magistrate to enter a nolle prosequi in a preliminary enquiry which
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