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Mr. Gibbons, and take the

management

Mr. Gibbons hands.

of the houses out of.

Whether in this order I was sight or

wrong

and whether what I did was

f

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that in directing a meeting of creditors to appoint a breditors' Assignée to relieve him in hg a This I'acted contrary

ng

what I had laid down in the

to

case_of

-of

Pustau's Bankruptcy. I who do know-

different from

mmy

decision in re

Austau

the

are

fact t

questions which I leave to the

testimony of Mr. Mossop

and Ir. Wotton

though. This is a nice question not for His Excellency the Governor, but for the Perry Council

mr bibbons is necessarily ignorant of

the

facts

state

re kustace whatever may

the

be the

of

his knowledge of

very peculiar international law applicable to that case. Mr. Gibbons wrote without knowledge.

when he made a statement contrary

to

part in his better to you of 29 September.

that

& herave takem

great pains to

understand the international law

applicable state positively that what I

laid down" in the

one caRL

is entirely

consistent with decision in the

other

case

Ir

ming

I therefore

Mr. Gibbons has said

state that what

actions

as to

to my

in the two cases is contrary to fact-

And now I come at length to the gravarmen of het Sibbons letter his charge is that I hold that I have a right that

it is my duty to make him personally

liable

ec.

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