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being tantamount to a charge of deliberate perversion of Justice and perversion of violation & their oaths of office by certain of our fellow Magistrates, we felt bound to make the most careful enquiry into the facts.
In the course of that enquiry we ascertained that some correspondence had taken place, previous to the issuing of the Memorandum between the Government and the Acting Chief Magistrate in respect of the decisions of the Bench on the two occasions in question, which correspondence being called for by the meeting, such portions of it as contained any reference to the He Justices were submitted to us.
After careful enquiry into the whole circumstances of the case, as detailed in the correspondence and the statements made to the meeting by the four Justices referred to in the Memorandum, our unanimous opinion is that the allegations have no foundation whatever.
The cases for trial on the 23rd day and the 2nd [sic] of June were of vital importance to the Community and to the most material interests of the Colony, and the judicial examinations in these cases appear to us to have been conducted with the utmost conscientious regard to a just and true interpretation of the Law. Extraordinary efforts indeed were made by the Acting Chief Magistrate to secure the cooperation of the other Justices on those occasions. For what purpose? In the assumed, as is alleged, abrogating and annulling the Law? No. But in the purpose of giving the most scrupulous and careful consideration to an Ordinance that had only a short time before been passed, and of securing, in so far as it lay in his power, a just and equitable decision in the cases arising under it.
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being tantamount to a charge of deliberate perversion of Justice and
perversion of
violation & their ouths of office by scrtain of our fellow Imagistrates,
we felt bound to make the most
caretní
enquiry
into the
facts.
In
enquiry
we
the course of that
ascertained that some
correspondence
had taken place, brevious to the issuing of the Memorandum between the Government and the
Acting Chief Magistrate in respect
the decisions of the Bench on the
of the
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two occasions in question, which
correspondence being called for by the meeting such portions of it as
arry reference to the
contained
He Justices were submitted to
LIA.
After careful enqui
im into the whole circumstances of the ence, 2:
as
detailed in the concciondence and the statements made to the meeting
by the four Justices referred to in the Mimnandum,
tu unanimuru.
reinion is that the allegations sundi
by
As Yceliones have
whatever
The
ve no
foundation
If
The cares for trial on the 23? Jay and the 2td [32] of Ame were of vital importance to the Community and to the most material interests
of the Colony, and the judiciaí cxaminations in these cares a crear to us to have been conducted with
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the uret conscientions regard to
a just and true interrrctation of
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were
the Law: Extrandinary efforts indeed made by the retins" "Chief Magistrate to seme the experation
F
ther Justices
Mit for
those occasions,
what murrose? In the
sunione, as is alleged, of abrogating
and annuling and meaning of
in
the Lovious intent
the Law? no: But
of the
In the purpose of giving the most
ccrusulous and careful consideration
to an Ordinance that had only
Jan
a
chout time before been passed, and
of securing,
in so
for
as it
lay in
Tay
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his power, a just and equitable decision in the cares
arising under
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