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nothing in it but a determination on the part of the acting Chief Magistrate to subvert the Law, and on the part of the Justices to support him in doing so; we see nothing in it but an anxious desire on the part of the Magistrate to render his decision as accurate and sound as possible, and on the part of the Justices to assist him therein. It is in the highest degree improbable that a Magistrate possessed by preconceived determination not to give effect to the Law should seek to hamper himself by calling to the Bench a number of Colleagues over whose opinions he could exercise no control and who were inexperienced law officers on the Bench with himself; yet Mr. Mitchell not only did so, but, on one of the occasions in question, he specially requested that you yourself and the General - both being members of the Legislative Council - would be pleased to assist him at the hearing of the case :- if anything were wanted to show that he was very far from being restrained by a determination not to give effect to the Law," surely this should suffice.

It further came under the notice of the meeting that upon

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46 45 nothing in it but a determination on the part of the acting Chief Magistrate to subvert the Law, and on the part of the Justices to support him in doing so; we see nothing in it but an anxious desire on the part of the Magistrate to render his decision as accurate and sound as possible, and on the part of the Justices to assist him therein. It is in the highest degree improbable that a Magistrate possessed by preconceived determination not to give effect to the Law should seek to hamper himself by calling to the Bench a number of Colleagues over whose opinions he could exercise no control and who were inexperienced law officers on the Bench with himself; yet Mr. Mitchell not only did so, but, on one of the occasions in question, he specially requested that you yourself and the General - both being members of the Legislative Council - would be pleased to assist him at the hearing of the case :- if anything were wanted to show that he was very far from being restrained by a determination not to give effect to the Law," surely this should suffice. It further came under the notice of the meeting that upon 210 10:

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nothing in it but a determination on the part of the recting chief Magistrate to subvert the Law, and on the past a the distices to

suctorí him in doing is; we see nothing in it but an anxious desire on the part of the Magistrate I render his decision as accurate and sound as possible, and on the part of the Justices to assist him therein. It is in the highest degree improbable that in Magistrate possessed by preconceived determination not give effect to the Law should seek to hamper himself by calling to the Bench a number of Colleagues

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