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do with confidence, to your Lordship that

the said Antonio Paulo Guterres should not

be deemed to have been guilty of corrupt

practices unless the evidence in support of

the charges in respect of such alleged cor- rupt practices be not only clear and uncon-

tradicted, but also be supported by the

testimony of witnesses of the highest repute,

and corroborated by evidence of so corvinc- ing and uncontrovertible a character as to prove beyond all reasonable possibility of

doubt that the said Antonio Paulo Guterres

has in fact been guilty of the charges of corrupt practices made against him. (c) That the facts alleged in connection with the charges made against the said Antonio Paulo Guterres (as the result of the Inquiry into which he was suspended from his said Office) relate to matters in connection with the discharge by the said Antonic Paulo Guterres of the duties of the office he

formerly held, and are thus of such a nature as to be peculiarly within the province of Your Petitioners' knowledge culled from the. personal observation of the mode in which

the said Antonio Paulo Guterres was wont to discharge the dutiesof his former office re. ferred to above, namely the payment off of

crews.

(a) That of the five charges made against the

said Antonio Paulo Guterres, three of such

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