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matter of appointments, even though it may not be always possible to give effect to his views and wishes.
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All the foregoing remarks apply to the question of the Official Receiver in Bankruptcy. Your Excellency, at first relying on inaccurate information, took up a similar position; but ultimately abandoned it, and acted as I could have wished Your Excellency to have acted from the first.
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The rest should follow easily; but unfortunately Your Excellency's letter under reply leads me to think that the original position with regard to Mr. Seth is still maintained. The position Your Excellency assumed in the early stages of the correspondence was that I had no right to be consulted as to appointments in the Registry, because the Registrar and not the Chief Justice was the head of the Department. It follows that if I have a right to be consulted it is as head of the Department, and that the Registrar's position is such as I have always maintained it to be. I cannot help thinking that the letter under reply was written under the influence of Your Excellency's old convictions. It is as far back as June last year that Your Excellency's despatch to the Secretary of State was written.
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