CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6] — Page 257

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( 2 ) Civil Engineers, Architect, and

devucy or .

3.

(3) Solicitor.

to what is vaid

Referring behalf of the 1. class, viz :

that it has

been the custom to communicate through

Solicitore " with the view

"earrying

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in a

aut

such communications

of sever strictly fonual

of securing the

legal,

I manner

al and

it may be noted that the probability is

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remote

of any

direct communication

to the Government from gentlemen of this class being otherwise than legal, while they,

or at least the great- majority of them, are

do

capable

die for.

4.

.

presumably quite

as their solicitors of writing

in

In this view His Excellency is unable to 5 regard as correct the conclusion that if the rule, against vicarions communications under ordinary

ciremustances be adhered to "every "letter addressed to the Government will

require

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" require to be submitted to a solicitor in " the first instance " " Indeed

"Indeed if these

if words had been carefully considered by those who signed the petition, they would have been recognised most

undeserved slur on

one

as a

the intelligence of

of the leading mercantile

Communities in the world.

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Moreover, even if the.

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(or in all

intervention of a soliciter is desined in respect of all communications, though" in the great majority of cases which

of a legal or quavi legal character ) unnecessary,

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not

.

it is

obvion that there is another alternative

besides that indicated, viz:

that the

letters should be drafted by the soliciton

& for

and then submitted to their clients signature, in which case the inconvenience caused to the latter

would be comparatively brifting, - while they would have the advantage of being alway

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of the matter,

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