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that question, submitted it to the Attorney General ?

The Aoting President ?

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Have you seen any record taking over the office of 16186

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Yes, I have.

That is what I want to know, and therefore we may naturally presume that there was a doubt in his mind

too as to whether the Board could enforce those

Standing Orders.

Yes.

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You have given us your reasons for submitting these 16288 Standing orders to the Board, although you knew already that Ordinance 23 of 1903 had already passed the third reading. A week later the Bill received the Governor's assent. Did you at that date or any later date, inform

the Board of the change which the passing of the Ordinance had made with their issuing and enforaing

Standing Orders ?

I must say it was public knowledge.

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That is not the point. My question is whether you, in your official capacity, ever informed the Board that

the matter was now taken out of their hands, and had

been transferred to our personal supervision ?

I dont think I dia inform the Board.

And so the fab semains that although that Bill was 16290 passed in December 1903, it was only in the summer of 1906 that the question having been raised, there was still a doubt in the minds, not only of the unofficial Members, but of the official Members, the Acting

President for one ?

I may say that I referred the matter to the Attorney

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