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in Bankruptcy and in Probate furisdiction should be heard in

or in the large Const.

Chambers

thad

12.7/

my

discretion decided

to hear certain matters in Each

Jurisdiction in Chambers, and

I

I duly

sat in Chambers from time to time for the purpose: but Mr Gibbons

has day by day refused

1.212.

to

atterid

in Chambers insisting that

I had power

these matters

to sit

viv these

in the large Court only and

in

Climbers

his place

erot

and he has sat in

the large Court repeatedly

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Coust in the presence of a reportes

he ascertained.

which

A

02.1

Saturday last of

full report appeared

China mark of that evening.

2

d d

the

Mr Justice Suordear has by his exhaustive argument proved that from

first to last

were

my

decision & actione

strictly according to prachos, procedure, and Law, but that m' Gibbons conduct has been throughout irregular, Contrary to practise, procedure and Law.

I submit that even if McGibbons

had been right in law, it

in him as ai

was insubor.

dination

Officer subordinate to the

sending t

my

Chambers with inquiries

Judges to set

exp

his opinion in publie

whether I was

Conving

inte Coust thus

creating the public scandal which

culminated in his ritterances

and to act in public contrary to the decision of the Judge,

open

Const

haverer

wrong

that

Dec.

(6 rms.1