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the to the March had not been made" His Honour

of

spects of this order simply

as a consent order for the

re-cillochment of the Dangwee.

It

denno me

to

that it

virtually

rescimted all previous preceedings, and

- restored the parties to the position they occupied

by the previous order of March to the

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A

Submission Not The letter from the Minister to

the Chief Justice (Appendix F).

1874

in March

This letter was delivered by Rai Sin in

and

is quite

the

first seizing of the ship: it certainly ought to prevent

the order of March to the

March to the being

still more

treated as a

submission

considered as made by

from being cons

the

or ad

being emphatically

"an

admission by the King

"express consent "of the King.

absolutely

and irrevocably

of his indebtedness to Landstein He

Sexbmission

4 and 5 The notice and order for

change of Attornies (appendices D and E).

As the cause had slumbered since the order

of April 14th the change of Attornies could be no fresh

submission unless the

King

was

to be held bound

Mad

part of his credentials. His Honour

was mistaken in supposing

it to have been dated

in November 1873, the actual date in figures (4.1.

27th year of In Due) at the end show that it could

not have been written earlier than

February.

and the

receipt of it can

Honour to make a communication to the Colonial

therefore scarcely have induced His

Secretary

in the early stages of the suit. I can

scarcely think that the minister of a King

can

be taken to be

an

official letter written

to a

Judge

could in

by

any

by the sting of his

personal immunity from suit: especially in a case in which the plaintiff alleges

that he is

owing