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" of public justice - miserably

h no doubt is still

"enough

"defrayed on

ed out of the yearly " estimates . Suppose the

" present deficit in the Treasury-

"to continue, after this

R

wew

" precedent is once establis

" and I deny that the Legislative Council

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Cau

" afterwards refuse to follow

" it, or to suspend, upon a "plea of economy',

and

the

" salaries of the Chief Justice, " the Attorney General and the Registran of the Supreme Court, by a " sunilar Measure for

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officers

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" suspending all. Ordinances

" relating to the administration "If Justice !"

" (Signed) I. Chishole au stay. Mr. S.C "H.M. Attorney General for Houghing.

"Council Chamber"

" 18th May, 1857 °

By the acting bolonial Secretary: -

" I am in favor of the

a

" resolution proposed because

I consider the sections

"there by suspen

ded to be of

"

"an impracticable Character.

• Were it merely a question menelopaquestion

" of finance I am not prepared

"to state that I should