on 11 november 1853 the canterbury provincial council, apparently unaware that campbell had already been removed from the land commissionerships (probably because campbell took no action to relinquish office while he appealed to the governor), adopted the following resolution agreeing to ask the governor of new zealand to remove campbell from office:""this council, having taken into account the various papers upon their table in reference to the proceedings of the commissioner of crown lands: resolve; that the commissioner of crown lands, having as it appears to this council, acted in disregard of the law, and having refused to afford this council any information on the affairs of his office, and having otherwise shown himself wholly incompetent to the discharge of the duties thereof, an address be presented from this council to his excellency the governor, praying his excellency to be pleased to remove colonel campbell from the office of commissioner of crown lands.""