CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12] — Page 287

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consideration a case in equity in which he had been compelled to pay Costs of the Crown to the amount of several hundred dollars while a case in Admiralty was fresh in the recollection of many. It is to the extension, as your Excellency is pleased to term it, of Common Law side of the Supreme Court; an extension rendered completely one-sided, be it remarked, in its operation that the meeting unanimously decided to object.

Of the 281 cogent arguments which convinced Your Excellency of the expediency of the provision we are of course unable to judge, but cogent as your Excellency states them to be and strongly adverse to the enactment as was the expressed opinion of Public Meeting, it would have been more satisfactory to the Public had Your Excellency deigned to particularise in some degree the nature of these Arguments


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consideration a case in equity in which he had been compelled to pay Costs of the Crown to the amount of several hundred dollars while a case in Admiralty was fresh in the recollection of many. It is to the extension, as your Excellency is pleased to term it, of Common Law side of the Supreme Court; an extension rendered completely one-sided, be it remarked, in its operation that the meeting unanimously decided to object. Of the 281 cogent arguments which convinced Your Excellency of the expediency of the provision we are of course unable to judge, but cogent as your Excellency states them to be and strongly adverse to the enactment as was the expressed opinion of Public Meeting, it would have been more satisfactory to the Public had Your Excellency deigned to particularise in some degree the nature of these Arguments Page ...
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consideration a case in equity

in which he had been.

compelled to pay

Costs

of

the Crown to the amount. of several hundred dollars while

a case in Admiralty was fresh in the recollection of many. It is to the "sample

le extension, as your Excellency is pleased to termi principle to the

the

it, of Common Law side of the Supreme Court; an extension

rendered completely

one

sided, be it remarked, in

its operation that the meeting

animously decided.

decided to object.

1)

Of the

281

cogent arguments

Your

which convinced

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Excellency of the expediency

the provision we are

of

of the provisio course unable to

to judge, but. cogent as your Excellency

states them to be and

strongly

adverse to the

enactment as was

the

the

expressed opinion of Public Meeting, it would:

have been more -satisfactory to the Public had Your

d to

Excellency deigned particularis in degree

in some

the nature of these

Arguments

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