CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12] — Page 242

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perhaps, having regard to my position, as Contrasted with the known character of the

Author, are more than the case requires.

I will thank

accepted by the opposite party or his Counsel,

upon

which state

of facts, I venture to anticipate,

with some degree of confidence, the decision of

Government,

the

you

therefore to inform

His Excellency that I kinno nothing- whatever of Mr. Galdwell, that I never proposed or suggested him as an arbitrator,

in

case whatever, either in Court or out

any case.

of Court, and that, at this moment; I

am

unacquainted with the charges.~ preferred against him, or the

which he

upon.

Service.

the grounds

was dismissed the public.

Whenever

ettr. Caldwell's name?

and

that it is no

sail

part

of a Judge's duty to enquire into the Antecedents of a proposed Arbitrator, or to

decide n

upon

the qualifications be

office, it being.

prosess for the office,

may

in all cases,

sufficient if the parties their Counsel on

the matters in difference

to

Agents agree to his decision.

refer

His Excellency is probably

aware

of the reasons

which induco Chinese

litigants or their bonnel to select Ar

has been proposed.

As an

Arbitrator, in

my

bout, it has been by one of the partics his Counsel, and such proposal has been

or

Caldwell

as

an

Arbitrator, it is this,

that he has the reputation of being

better acquainted with the language

t

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