CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 324

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"Hate that I had found it necessary

I confine

communications with

the Merney General to written Documents through the officint

$ far

shannels, – and to avoid as as possible personal intercourse

"public matters.

en

I have to call the attention of the Council to a part of Mr Anstey's evidence .. page 67: It ( correspondence with Mr Amada) states " that the Governor differs from "Mr Anstey in his reading of a

" case which he had cited to m

d proposed . home for the

" support his opinion and "sending

a cale

"Lan Officers of the Crown - This " was done and by return " despatch was received

from

"The Secretary of State for the

321

"Celonies which said that the

Law Officers concurred with my

"reading." It is true that such

A

reference

was made as to

the Migation of the Governor Ar attend a Lubpuna of the Impreme Court and all the

correspondence forwarded to

the Secretary of State on

the

8th September 1856, but so for

from

an andwer

being

sent

by return, no answer whatever

the 6th

his

was received, and on October 1857 another Gespatch - was written to the Secretary of State at the instance of the. Chief Justice desiring for quidance that the question

might be decided; and on the 10th March, 1858, Lord Stanley sends the opinion of the Law

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