CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9] — Page 169

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and I respectfully submit that it would be obviously improper for me to sit in judgment on the manner in which the other Justices performed their duties.

I should be unwilling to trouble the Secretary of State with this correspondence, but the principle involved is important, as no one can be expected satisfactorily to perform any public service, unless the scope of his duties and the limit of his responsibility are authoritatively laid down.

The visiting Justices, were rendered inefficient at present matter at I have been declared by ... to have failed in detecting illegal duty floggings, and, while with all I contend that the ... was not justified, by the case in ... the facts of the ... such conversation upon me, statement ...

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168 and I respectfully submit that it would be obviously improper for me to sit in judgment on the manner in which the other Justices performed their duties. I should be unwilling to trouble the Secretary of State with this correspondence, but the principle involved is important, as no one can be expected satisfactorily to perform any public service, unless the scope of his duties and the limit of his responsibility are authoritatively laid down. The visiting Justices, were rendered inefficient at present matter at I have been declared by ... to have failed in detecting illegal duty floggings, and, while with all I contend that the ... was not justified, by the case in ... the facts of the ... such conversation upon me, statement ... his ... Page 169 ... ... It appears that the original text is heavily damaged due to OCR errors. I have made my best effort to correct the text while following the given rules. Here is the processed text in HTML format as requested. To improve the output further, more context or clearer scans of the original document would be necessary.
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