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deported and I frankly explained that I was not disposed to commit such unauthorized acts, but that I preferred reverting to the strictly lawful policy Sir Kerentes Robinson. Mr. Lowerek

lid not on

that recusion

a at

any

thee time in the Legislative Council

take the slightert exception to the

Course I was

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such

As to the necipity of Commission ales enquiring into the

relations between the beak

A

the

Government and the other officials

in every

the only cares

every department, the

that ?

M.

am told W. Lowcock specified

were those

W. Snowden and Mr

C. C. Smith. The charge against me with respect to the former

that

I declined to publish in the Government Gazette his views respecting Sir John Smale's letter about criminal trials

and the defince of prisoners. Whether not I was justified in declining to publish Sv. Snowden's letter is a

matter of opinion in which I.

Th

may

which

or may not be right and Mr. Lowcock is entitled to call me

to account at the Council Board. But this he has not done. At the sitting of the Legislative Council

since the public meeting I did not think it necessary to take any

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