Authorities.
At the same line, His Excellency, the Governor in Council distinctly and unhesitatingly declares, that whatever be the decision Her Majesty's Government may be pleased to come to on your appeal - he should esteem any arrangement, grounded, however remotely, on the principle alluded to in Captain Elliot's letter to your address of the 17th of June, 1841 - of which you have thought it worth while to submit a copy - to be utterly inapplicable to the present state and future prospects of this Colony, and obviously and wholly unjust towards the rights of the Crown.
Having thus explained to you the sentiments of the Governor in Council, I am desired to add, that, looking to the Instructions for England although it has not been considered that a positive stipulation on the subject could be introduced into the Leases, yet Her Majesty's Government will be moved to place on record, that it shall be understood that at the expiration of the present Leases, the offers of the occupants of the different premises shall have a preference over all others (cateris paribus), and that they shall be allowed to renew their Leases, on favourable terms, for such further period as deemed just and expedient.
(Signed) Richard Wormald
A true Copy.
Menard Wrosnam