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The Civil Service, whether a high Official or a subordinate, unless he makes those charges, from that a conviction there course is open to him, as and after such previous inquiry shall have satisfied him that there good reason to can be charge su rose those suppose be supported and and are true.

8. I also hope that a Governor will never be induced by any such theory as that started by Mr. Moorson and advocated by the General to regard every Official finally to be brought before the Executive Council with a view to his suspension, and, therefore, as one who must never be spoken to or written to on the subject of any delinquencies till they become so unbearable as to require that charges should be founded on them to be heard by an Executive Council, Members of which, as well as from the Governor, all such details had been carefully screened, on the ground that possibly they might be adjudicated on the delinquent at same final trial.

9. To reduce the argument still further "ad absurdum" I might say it implies that a Governor instead of exercising a watchful vigilance over all the Departments entrusted to his care, ought to shut his eyes to all, which at present he is supposed most carefully to scrutinize.

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The Civil Service, whether a high Official or a subordinate, unless he makes those charges, from that a conviction there course is open to him, as and after such previous inquiry shall have satisfied him that there good reason to can be charge su rose those suppose be supported and and are true. 8. I also hope that a Governor will never be induced by any such theory as that started by Mr. Moorson and advocated by the General to regard every Official finally to be brought before the Executive Council with a view to his suspension, and, therefore, as one who must never be spoken to or written to on the subject of any delinquencies till they become so unbearable as to require that charges should be founded on them to be heard by an Executive Council, Members of which, as well as from the Governor, all such details had been carefully screened, on the ground that possibly they might be adjudicated on the delinquent at same final trial. 9. To reduce the argument still further "ad absurdum" I might say it implies that a Governor instead of exercising a watchful vigilance over all the Departments entrusted to his care, ought to shut his eyes to all, which at present he is supposed most carefully to scrutinize. Page 210Page 211 10.
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