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wants of respect to His Excellency The Governor or to the laws and we the Colony of regret exceedingly that he appears to have put such a construction on our letter.
We most respectfully state that we have pronounced the opinion given by the Attorney General illegal, surely we thought it is, and expressed our opinion accordingly.
We beg to state also that we considered the first letter of the Colonial Secretary as final and as not giving us either the opportunity of appeal or in any way pointing out to us that an appeal would be listened to.
We venture to express that there is no analogy between the trust on which the spouse occupied by His Excellency and that occupied by the Officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers.
The one is hired for the accommodation of His Excellency and family alone, the other for the Officers and the joint Corps; the one Mess of two probably paying Police Rate through the person who added it to the rent, the other having paid us Police Rate when hired, and the rate attempted to be enforced on a Tenant, who is merely the agent of the officers occupying a house hired by them and who cannot in any way be termed the Lessee, as Her Majesty's Ordnance pay the regulated hire rent, the offices of their quarters to the Ordnance, and the House is de facto a Government Building.
In order to give His Excellency the true state of our cause, we beg to remark that the summons was sent to Lieutenant Colonel Hyslop by a Common Policeman, and that it was