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in the 2nd June - invited ふ

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again (as is Officially reported)

crecially by the licting Chief Magistrate

three of the Justices who had been present at the sitting of 23P-May-

and another Justice who took his lest them for the first and only time in which he has ever acted formed the Bench, and then Juctices again supported the Chief Magistrate in his determination not to

give effect to the Law. Stis Excellency informed that

Mic

is

of the Justices

precente - a reember of the Legislative Council, distinctly pointed out to his Colleagues the error which had been Committed on the 23rd May,

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and which had been the subject of reference to the Legislative Council_ That Gentleman of cource disented from the conclusion by which majority cooperated with the Chief Magistrate in his extrandinay course of proceeding.

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For the maintenance of that Supreme Authority of the Law which, in the great interests of the whole Community, every bound to provide for and of which

the Pence are expected

Government is

all Justices of the Pence to be instruments and auxiliaries,

His Excellency directed an application

for a

ofor

a Mandanus

against.

the

Acting Chief Magistrate to be