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Such conduct being unbecoming a Government Officer and a gentle-
man; rendering the party so transgressing unworthy of the power
vested in him for granting such privileges, and, consequently, unfit for
Government employment. Such acts tending to lower the Government,
the party himself, and everybody else connected with the Government,
in the minds of the public, both citizens and aliens.

(Sgd.) P. B. WHANNELL,
Justice of the Peace, District of Fort Yale, B.C.

British Columbia, Fort Yale, 9th February, 1859.

THIRD CHARGE AGAINST Mr. RicHArp Hicks, LATELY ASSISTANT GOLD
CoMMISSIONER AT Fort YALE, BritisH CoLUMBIA.

Disgraceful Intoxication.
In the following instances, viz. :—

Ist. “ For having, at Fort Yale, British Columbia, between the
17th and 25th days of November, 1858, appeared in the public street
(Front Street) of the town of Fort Yale in a disgraceful state of
intoxication between the hours of 8 and 12 p.m. So much so that
the Chief of Police at that time, Mr. B. Donnellan, found it necessary
to lead him (Richard Hicks) to his house, the Government Building,
and there leave him in safety.”

2nd. “ For having, at the same place and date, after having been
taken home in the state described in the lst instance of this Charge,
left the house and gone down into the said public street of said town
again; and did there enter the public gambling-saloon kept by one
Alexander Roberts and Charles Bennet (his partner) in which were
assembled at the time a large number of gamblers and others of noto-
rious character; and did there suffer himself to be handled by one
James Farrell, a gambler or another, who seized him (Hicks) around
the waist and, lifting him (Hicks) off the ground, swung him round
several times, to the amusement and delight of the assembled audience
in the said saloon.”

Such conduct being unbecoming a Government Officer and a gentle-
man; lowering and debasing the dignity of a Magistrate (in which
capacity Mr. Hicks at that time officiated) ; unworthy of a person
holding the respectable and responsible appointment of Asst. Gold
Commissioner ; tending to effect the dignity of the law, as well as that
of the Crown, in the eyes of both the citizens and aliens in the Colony;
setting an example diametrically opposite to that of a Magistrate, to
the gamblers and other rough and unruly characters with whom the