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65. The Caldwell Commission presenter ito report to me dated July the 17th on Only the 19th and I'must refer you,

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in, to this Freument which I believe

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is considered by all parties mort. -- inentiifactory. I feel it

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to examine some of the ground which its conclusions rest and which

in as far as they are unfavourable

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to the Jaldwell are my presquent unwarranted by the evidence. Ms. Day the present asting Attorney General

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was the Barrister selectin

who was

the Commission as themselves to assist them has at the request of the reting Colonial Scentury intered at come length into an examination of

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Mr Day's halten" to the acting Colonial Sucretary.

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report which tack from his thorough

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acquaintance with the evidence be

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perhaps the most competent person to perform at the request of the Lieutenant Governor and the Gener I transmit Mr day's letter rerewith

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ty and I think a careful perusal will show how nearly in the opinion of

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an

unrejudised lawyer the

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every

Commissioners have strained point which could possibly be made to tell against Mr Jaldwell

The decision, on the first charge as to whether Mer/Jaldwell

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not fit to continue a critice of

the Pence being decided in his fron

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by a tribunal which had ben

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