your previous Lanction _
In reply I beg to state that
I looked on the matter
as comected
solely with the ordinary Alails" of Gwemment and as such, not necessarily requiring sub- mission to Your Excellency.
Had I been
Your Excellency
this
a ware.
e that
avished to excrcise
inor point.
that occasional
Control which Mr. Feel's letter.
empowers you
to use, I would
most assuredly leave consulted Your Excellency before making the appointment, or, of directed have left it entirely to yo disposal and
Mr. Masson's
your..
angement.
noruination.
in December last to perform the duties of Acting Registrar of
the
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Supreme Court. I may cite as à precedent - Hisappointment
was to extend
over
while necording
your mouths,
to
the terms.
of the Despatch from then Right Hrible: the secretary a
State
wave a
may
look for
Baxter's
Successor. & Mr Odell's belief, considerably within that period. Mr Masson's appointierent thus so far of weightier
avas
...
moment than Mr. Odell's, and
- though Your Excellency the Colony at the time,
was in
at the time, Ireceived
intimation then that I had
exceeded my powers, whiiete Your Excellency
seems more to imply.
by calling in question my temporary appointinent of
Mr. Odell.
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