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PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 25

of the State, they shall not entertain a plea and give a judgment because after all the judgment on a decree of the Judiciary has to be executed by the Department of the State and they do not want themselves to be entangled with the State Department. That, I think, is a very salutary reason why the courts themselves have abnegated the right of exercising any jurisdiction in a matter which is likely to be political.

I submit, therefore, that this clause, clause 6, is a very right clause, appropriate, and should remain in the Bill as it is.

Mr. Chairman : The question is :

“That clause 6 stand part of the Bill.”

The motion was adopted.

(Clause 6 was added to the Bill.)