CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 334

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"he Acting

Acting Octenia l' Secretary following minute:

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put in

in the

conceive neces

necessary

that

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very

"I should minute the reasons which "hare indword me to take the

• unusual step of declining to record my role in any of the proceedings " of this Council relating to the " suspension from Office of Her

Majesty's Attorney General, M. Thomas Chisholm Anstey.

"

a

" I have been subjected to such

series

of Attacks both private and

official from Mr. Anstey throughout his tenure of Office

mencing.

during my bsence in England

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before

we had even met

the

Colony and continued up to the

present week that I am

I free

my

unable

mind from a feeling of

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" strong personal dislike towards hem * and that feeling

in

incapacitates

me

opinion from sitting

1 judgment upon him.

Being

Inercover

the

Senior

" Member of the Bur here having " for a long period discharged the "duties of Morney General and... entertaining the desire to açain

• hold that Office should I be deemed

• fit for it I decline to give any "the opportunity of saying that !..

operated in making " for myself and it is not sufficient

"

a

ANY Bɩn

racuncy

"that I should in this instance

• decline if offered to me the office " of Acting Attorney General _ It has

impossible for me as Acting. Colonial & cereture to avoid being.

• been

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to some degree thixed as with .. these proceedings

but by the