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being issued pursuant to

the

le request of Cintain Justices

Can constitute such a difference

Ro

to render it on

document, or one in

irregular

proper to be

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Circulated – and I am therefore at a loss to comprehend what are the peculiar circumstances" stated to exist (in your Letter of 25th October to the Acting (hief Magishale ) unless it be that the case,

e for adjudication Mentioned in fircular Ac 1,

was under An Ordinance,

regarding the reading of which, the views of the Majority of the

Justices, were

opposed to the

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interpretation placed upon it by

His Cratturey,

and that the fircular

was stopped, in order as far possible, te krop those

orance

those Justices

that such

As

in

a case was g

about to be tried, and this prevent

their attendance on the Bench !

Although the Cincutar

Addropped to the Bench of Juations

In að

Phase

seized, and returneds

with His Corcellency's instructions

that none similar should be

issued ; no explanation evas

vouchsafed to the Justices, of the

Reasons

for such interdiction, nor

& .

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for the very Arbitrary, and ceppemently

discourteous Act

With all respect for the high office hold by this Cyrellency, the Governor, I must decline to acknowledge, that his individual opinion is sufficient to currule

the propriety of such a firentar,

11.0

the one in

question,

ov

to

Authorize the discourtesy of which

I complain.

As a Justice of the Peace,

I am not prepared to expood

myself

to such unpleasantness,

at the hands of His texcellency

br

amy

other Member of the