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No. 18.
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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 22ND APRIL, 1882. 日五初月三年午壬 日二十月四年二十八百八千一
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. No. 6.
TUESDAY, 7TH MARCH, 1882.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Acting Chief Justice, (FRANCIS SNOWDEN), President.
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the Acting Colonial Secretary, (MALCOLM STRUAN TONNOCHY).
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the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY).
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the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE). PHINEAS RYRIE.
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FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.
ABSENT:
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK (on leave).
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JOHN MACNEILE PRICE (on leave'). EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS (on leave).
The Minutes of the last Meeting of Council held on the 1st March, 1882, are read.
The President puts the question that the Minutes be confirmed.
Mr. JOHNSON asks permission to make some observations on the Minutes of the 22nd February last, which were read and confirmed at the last meeting, at which he was not present, with reference to the remarks of His Excellency the Governor, on the Protest of the Honourable Member, dated the 13th February, and entered upon the Minutes of the 22nd February, 1882.
The President points out that the question before the Council is the confirmation of the Minutes. The Attorney General addresses the Council.
Deliberation ensues, and it is agreed that Mr. JOHNSON may make any remarks he wishes after the Minutes just read have been confirmed.
The Minutes are then confirmed.
Mr. JOHNSON then, by permission, proceeds to remark at length on the statement recorded by the Clerk of Councils on the Minutes of the 22nd February, 1882, in connection with the Honourable Member's Protest of the 13th February, to the effect that His Excellency the Governor ruled that the Honourable Member was out of order in endeavouring, as a question of privilege, to enter into a dis- cussion and quote a text book with reference to a ruling of the Chair on a former occasion some meet- ings ago, and that that statement as to his intention was not in accordance with facts.
The President remarks that the Clerk, in the Minutes of the 22nd February, simply says what the Governor said.
Mr. JOHNSON continues his address and concludes by adding that he wishes to have recorded, on the Minutes, his desire to correct any misapprehension that may arise out of the Minutes of the 22nd February, that on whatever grounds his motion may have been out of order, it was not ruled out of order on any intention on his part to quote a text book with reference to a ruling of the Chair on a former occasion some meetings ago, and proceeded to state what his intention was.