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That from Your Petitioners' knowledge of and acquaintance with the said Antonio Paulo Guterres, they are enabled to submit, as they do with confidence, to Your Lordship that the said Antonio Paulo Guterres should not be deemed to have been guilty of corrupt practices unless the evidence in support of the charges in respect of such alleged corrupt practices be not only clear and uncontradicted, but also be supported by the testimony of witnesses of the highest repute, and corroborated by evidence of so convincing and uncontrovertible a character as to prove beyond all reasonable possibility of doubt that the said Antonio Paulo Guterres has in fact been guilty of the charges of corrupt practices made against him.
That the facts alleged in connection with the charges made against the said Antonio Paulo Guterres (as the result of the Inquiry into which he was suspended from his said Office) relate to matters in connection with the discharge by the said Antonio Paulo Guterres of the duties of the Office he formerly held, and are thus of such a nature as to be peculiarly within the province of Your Petitioners' knowledge culled from their personal observation of the mode in which the said Antonio Paulo Guterres was wont to discharge the duties of his former Office referred to above, namely the payment off of crews.
That of the five charges made against the said Antonio Paulo Guterres, three of such
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