CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4] — Page 349

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Court.

4. The omission

was also discus

teens, because the day fixed might, for ought the Governor could know, have interfered with some of the

judge's judicial duties, public or private

5. The notere itself.

up in such terms,

was dracond

as to make it

at least doubtful whether it did

not purport to come from the Supreive

Const. Aranding

to

meve Grannnationl

consturation, such would be the proper reading of the notice; the only "Count " acpressly mentioned in the noter, by the of a Count, being the Supreme Court,

hame.

Yet the bleef Justice must have indentos the real meaning, and ought not, I think, to have affected, to misunderstand it.

The Secretary's letter to home of the 19% of Apiel seems to me to have been a improper letter. It describers

rude

Ro

and

an

"perfectly emintelligible "," the objections

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to the form of the notice, though there objections

evere

as it deems to me,

both

clear, and (in absolute strictness, well

to the Judge founded. It conveys

intance.

of the

consequences of his now

attendance, although he had never

the least reason to chiffese.

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never given

that he

meant to absent himself. The rebuke

for his assuring the title of Land dif Juster is conveyed

in d

harsh and

offension tone, this Excellency will not aller

Such also is the tone of the

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rebuke for writing, through his clerk, to the Colonial hautary. In this last rabutte the Indge

reminded that, not long

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before, the Colonial Scentury. Administrator of

the Government, had

to

takes precedences of himself; remark calculated, if not designed,

I can see / quite

gove pain, & /s for

beside the purpose.

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7. The controversy respecting the miles

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