CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3] — Page 205

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of the Executive Council showing how the Members advised on

the various charges. Your Lordship will observe that while

there was considerable division of opinion as to whether

the charges had been proved, the Council, with the exception

of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, were unanimous in

recommending the accused for dismissal. Some of the members

felt, as I did, that the proof of the criminal charge of

obtaining or attempting to obtain a bribe should,

for

acceptance, be not less satisfactory than that which should

be required in a Court of Law and if such proof were avail-

-able a Court of Law was the proper place of trial. On the

other hand the evidence appeared even to those members who

voted that the charge was not proven, sufficient to create

the gravest suspicion and they considered that taken in

connection with the prisoner's own admissions this evidence

showed the Officer to be untrustworthy and unfit for the

Public Service.

In this connection I would invite

Your Lordship's attention to the facts that in his reply

to the 4th charge, Mr. Conolly admits that he borrowed

the sum of $10 from Mr. Io Man Kai who at the time was

occupying an inferior, though not directly subordinate,

position

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losure 202 of the Executive Council showing how the Members advised on the various charges. Your Lordship will observe that while there was considerable division of opinion as to whether the charges had been proved, the Council, with the exception of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, were unanimous in recommending the accused for dismissal. Some of the members felt, as I did, that the proof of the criminal charge of obtaining or attempting to obtain a bribe should, for acceptance, be not less satisfactory than that which should be required in a Court of Law and if such proof were avail- -able a Court of Law was the proper place of trial. On the other hand the evidence appeared even to those members who voted that the charge was not proven, sufficient to create the gravest suspicion and they considered that taken in connection with the prisoner's own admissions this evidence showed the Officer to be untrustworthy and unfit for the Public Service. 4. In this connection I would invite Your Lordship's attention to the facts that in his reply to the 4th charge, Mr. Conolly admits that he borrowed the sum of $10 from Mr. Io Man Kai who at the time was occupying an inferior, though not directly subordinate, position

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losure 202 of the Executive Council showing how the Members advised on the various charges. Your Lordship will observe that while there was considerable division of opinion as to whether the charges had been proved, the Council, with the exception of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, were unanimous in recommending the accused for dismissal. Some of the members felt, as I did, that the proof of the criminal charge of obtaining or attempting to obtain a bribe should, for acceptance, be not less satisfactory than that which should be required in a Court of Law and if such proof were avail- -able a Court of Law was the proper place of trial. On the other hand the evidence appeared even to those members who voted that the charge was not proven, sufficient to create the gravest suspicion and they considered that taken in connection with the prisoner's own admissions this evidence showed the Officer to be untrustworthy and unfit for the Public Service. 4. In this connection I would invite Your Lordship's attention to the facts that in his reply to the 4th. charge, Mr. Conolly admits that he borrowed the sum of $10 from Mr. Io Man Kai who at the time was occupying an inferior, though not directly subordinate, position

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