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of the Executive Council showing how the Members advised on
the various charges. Your Lordship will observe that while
there was considerable division of opinion as to whether
the charges had been proved, the Council, with the exception
of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, were unanimous in
recommending the accused for dismissal. Some of the members
felt, as I did, that the proof of the criminal charge of
obtaining or attempting to obtain a bribe should,
for
acceptance, be not less satisfactory than that which should
be required in a Court of Law and if such proof were avail-
-able a Court of Law was the proper place of trial. On the
other hand the evidence appeared even to those members who
voted that the charge was not proven, sufficient to create
the gravest suspicion and they considered that taken in
connection with the prisoner's own admissions this evidence
showed the Officer to be untrustworthy and unfit for the
Public Service.
4.
In this connection I would invite
Your Lordship's attention to the facts that in his reply
to the 4th charge, Mr. Conolly admits that he borrowed
the sum of $10 from Mr. Io Man Kai who at the time was
occupying an inferior, though not directly subordinate,
position