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that

ouring

the six mouths of its

purbation it has not worked altogether

of

it in which the corre taken by the

Chief Justice is referred to I with to

exstain that the tardily raised objection

well according

to the experience

experience of the

F

Mr Adams was

Magistrates, though the Chief Justice

before the Council declared thimcelf caliqfied with it.–

9.

As the Attorney General ultimately leferred to the Chief Justice

I did not propose to the Council

ther alteration

10.

any

I truck that the Ordinance is now in such

foun

as to justify its

submission by

Grace

your

Her Mort

Gracions Majesty's Approval and Confirmation.

I enclose the explanatory Statement N. 2.

11.

of the Attorney Sencial.

12.

With

reference

to that pack

was intimatek

The

the

4th Distant to Mr Smale and not

to myself.

13.

I only knew up to the 6th Instant that the chief Justice had returned the graft, after keeping it

ofor a considerable time in his handd without objection.

14.

I understand from the Attorney General that on the morning of

the

Council meeting he begged the chief

Enstice to see me

personally before the

meeting was held. This the Chief dustice refused or neglected to do,