emstitutionally within the proper eognizance of a Legistative Body which is charged with the brusion of voting the salary of the officer, whose fil- ness for the discharge of his duties, to have been the subject of the proposed investigation.
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His Excellencys ruling
has been practically to the affect
that
because certain papers have been sink to
one matter
your Lordships in relation to these papers cannot be produced in the Legislative bonnet here in relation to another, and though Icannot suppose that
your Lordships will sustain this decision, win on the technical grounds
which it is alleged to be based, Iventure to submit that the issue,
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presenting to your Lordship is of far deeper significance than one to be governed by considerations affecting nice distinctions.
distri
on a
point of order. The Governor had the power
of rejecting my
motion by the voks of
his official majority, or if the motion
had been carried in the bouncil, he
might,
his
own
responsibility, have
isfused the papers asked for. If, in ad-
dition
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