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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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