CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12] — Page 378

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Phat a legal Officer in M. Snowden's position, should, in an

Official letter to the Secretary of State,

describe the temporam use

money

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to meet the

private embarrassment of

sublic trust

the

Official

Trucker

as

if

it were

not

but

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Criminal Offence, simply grop misconduct

irregularity, explains to some extent the laxity or apparent

indifference of some

бр

of

of the Officers

the Supreme Court in dealing

with Juffam's crime.

8.

The trouble I have

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rienced in getting explanations

from the Acting Chief Justice, and in which he has appealed

the

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way

you before I had time to form

his

my final opinion respecting conduct, and that of his cleak

M. Mokop, M. Pangster (ders of rout) and Mr Sharp (the Crown Solicitor) have compelled me to leave the muatter entirely in your

hands.

The

draft letter to Mr Snowden

that I contemplated sending and which I read at the Executive Council on the 23rd of Auquet was

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follows: "Iregret that I cannot `regard your explanations as being