CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5] — Page 41

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Judgment on my decisions is vested in the Government. And respectfully submit that His Excellency has exceeded his Constitutional functions when on the non-reliable report of a non-legal person he censured

my decision on the Bench

a failure of justice. If there are any rules of the Colonial Office which authorize His Excellency to interfere with the Chief Justice in his Judicial capacity they have never been brought to notice and I respectfully ask that His Lordship the Secretary of State will direct that they be communicated to me that I may conform myself to them, and that if His Excellency's conduct is unauthorized it may be protected from

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comments which press hard on a single Judge and tend to weaken and unfit him for the discharge of his very arduous duties.

You forwarded to me the whole report of Mr. Deane of the 4th of February. His Lordship the Secretary of State will therefore see that Mr. Deane's observations during 1868 and especially on crime in paragraph 10 were brought to my notice --- and I shall be liable to be understood in acquiescing in Mr. Leane's views on Gambling in paragraph 16 if I do not express my dissent. I differ from Mr. Leane's suggestion that Gambling has not increased crime. Crimes are ponderanda not numeranda. It may be that felony

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39 Judgment on my decisions is vested in the Government. And respectfully submit that His Excellency has exceeded his Constitutional functions when on the non-reliable report of a non-legal person he censured my decision on the Bench a failure of justice. If there are any rules of the Colonial Office which authorize His Excellency to interfere with the Chief Justice in his Judicial capacity they have never been brought to notice and I respectfully ask that His Lordship the Secretary of State will direct that they be communicated to me that I may conform myself to them, and that if His Excellency's conduct is unauthorized it may be protected from Censure 40 comments which press hard on a single Judge and tend to weaken and unfit him for the discharge of his very arduous duties. You forwarded to me the whole report of Mr. Deane of the 4th of February. His Lordship the Secretary of State will therefore see that Mr. Deane's observations during 1868 and especially on crime in paragraph 10 were brought to my notice --- and I shall be liable to be understood in acquiescing in Mr. Leane's views on Gambling in paragraph 16 if I do not express my dissent. I differ from Mr. Leane's suggestion that Gambling has not increased crime. Crimes are ponderanda not numeranda. It may be that felony
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Judgment on my decisions is vestect in the Govermen. And respectfully submit that His Excellency has exceeded his Constitutional functions when on the non reliable report of a non legal person he censured

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You forwarded to me the whole report of M." Deane of the 4th of February. His Lordship the Senetary of State will

therefore see that Mr Deane's observations

during 1868 and especially

on crime

paragraph 10

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was

brought to

my

notice

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has not increased crime. Crimes ponderanda

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