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question affected the independence of the Bench and pointed!
out that his "action in publicly and adversely commenting
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on a matter which as you are aware has twice recently been
under the consideration of the Secretary of State is open
to misconstruction". Sir F. Piggott replied in a letter of
which I attach a copy. In this letter he animadverted
strongly upon Sir Matthew Nathan's action, and expressed a
wish to lay the whole matter before me verbally on my
arrival. This he did, and the correspondence of which I
enclose copies resulted. These letters put the position as
it stands very fully.
3.
In reference to Sir F. Piggott's
statement in this correspondence that his proposals to
ameliorate the state of things of which he complains by
abolishing Monthly Sessions and establishing a Quarterly
Assize by the Chief Justice and Puisne Judge was negatived
by Your Lordship, I would refer you to your Despatch of
18th, July, 1906. His reference to being "let and hindered"
by the absence of reports is to a request for a separate
Library - a request with which I found myself unable at
present to comply in view of the fact that this Government
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