CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6] — Page 437

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practice. Under these circumstances he is practically unable to devotom. sufficient time to drafting Bills for the Colonial Legislature, or to theat

revisions of the Laws in force in this

Colony, which, as I have already

ported out, is urgently required,

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· but which is practically at a standstill. In your to deny f le Coruscission for this purpose cias appointed nearly three years ago, but has, as yet, made hardly any progress. 7. Again, the Attorney-General

receives general retainers from several of the leading Commercial Friso here,

which frequently

are at Variance witte

the Governme

ment about questions of

land, wharves, and other matters; so

it is

easy

to conceive dilemmas in

which the Attorney General would

Attorney-General

be compelled to make his choice between

his public duties, on the one hand, and

ow the other hand, his private interests

and

Engagements. Inced scarcely say

that nothing caw be further from my

intention thean to cast the slightest

reflection

9

ow the honour and integrity

of 11.0 malley, or of any of his

predecessors in his present office; but he has himself admitted to me that

difficulties occasionally beset his position

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