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pinstructions were expected to lead to some remonstrance. Those instructions however are so positive and have been issued after the whole case had been before Your Lordships that it would be almost indecorous in the Authorities here to criticise them or do otherwise than accept them with a determination to obey them without comment.

10. So far at least as they affect the main consideration, and I presume that must be the case, the influence of those instructions will be regarded by Your Lordship as the main consideration. I have doubt however that Your Lordship will be obliged to ... if I point out any needless hardship, which the Colony might suffer from a sudden and sharp application to the past of rules, which may nevertheless be easily applied with due notice to the future.

Whether through my ... tance or inadver... I really believe it would be found to be the case, from the inherent difficulty of giving effect to instructions necessarily at first half defined, shifting in their tenor and applicable to novel incidents occurring at the most distant possible spot from the person to whom explanations and explanations my duty to furnish from whom alone definite final instructions could be ...

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12 pinstructions were expected to lead to some remonstrance. Those instructions however are so positive and have been issued after the whole case had been before Your Lordships that it would be almost indecorous in the Authorities here to criticise them or do otherwise than accept them with a determination to obey them without comment. 10. So far at least as they affect the main consideration, and I presume that must be the case, the influence of those instructions will be regarded by Your Lordship as the main consideration. I have doubt however that Your Lordship will be obliged to ... if I point out any needless hardship, which the Colony might suffer from a sudden and sharp application to the past of rules, which may nevertheless be easily applied with due notice to the future. Whether through my ... tance or inadver... I really believe it would be found to be the case, from the inherent difficulty of giving effect to instructions necessarily at first half defined, shifting in their tenor and applicable to novel incidents occurring at the most distant possible spot from the person to whom explanations and explanations my duty to furnish from whom alone definite final instructions could be ... 13
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pinstructions

were

expected to lead to some

remonstrance. Those instructions however

1

are so positive

and have been issued

after the whole case had been before.

that

Your Lordships so completely want would be

almost indecon

it

corous in the Authorities here

mdecorous

" to criticise them or do otherwise than

accept them with a determination to Lobey them without comment. 10. So for at least as they affect the I

"and [futine that must be the case and pressume, as it is a principle, rather than

minor details which is at stake the influence of those instructions

the

Lordship.

· futine is regarded by Your as the main consideration. I have doubt however that Your Lordship

mo

will be obliged to

me

13

547

if I paint aut

any needles hardship, which the balony might suffer from a sudden

and shoup application to the past

of rules, which

may nevertheless be easily applied with due notice to the future. Whether through my

tance

on as

ON,

inadver=

I really believe would be

found to be the case, from the inherent difficulty of giving effect to instructions necesarily at first half defined shifting

in then tenor and

as well as

applicable to novel incidento scaming at the most distent possible spot from the person to whom it was

anations and

explanations

my duty to furnish

from whom alone

definite final instinctions could be

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