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legal authority in the island,

but it does not

appear

lo

that it has. The question at is sue is, in effect, this, whether

the law is to be administered.

trates who are sworn

to the

according to the judgment of the Magistra to dispense it according best of their knowledge ability, subject to correction by appeal to the Supreme Court,

or

according

and

to the judgment

of the Governor and Executive

Conneil ? His Excellency is pleased

is

to state that "he had no

" but to maintain in the

"

object

5 great

and general interests of the

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" community the supreme authority

"of

"the law," but that lie does "not think it necessary.

"becoming

or

to enter into a defence

" of what is represented

presented in our

"Communications to be

ar

" unconstitutional, unjustifiable,

Langerous

s and dictatorial

"proceeding !"

We

beg

to assure

This Excellency that it was very

far from our purpose to call in

of

his

question the nature intention or the utility of

-which be had in

the object w

view. Nor

as is our

did we.

bounden

We will ever,

dusty,

cordially co-operate with His

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