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having deliberately, and against the If only. byent, and in the face of two previous Judicial decisions in and ofpressive art on my favor

the

action

my favor and by forced

part of the Executive

on

Government, procured the destruction of property and it

sigure

and that undone

the

to the

uses

of my

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which he himself operation of an Ordinance -

now prsations tentative but of legislation, soundouts - tedly stringent" "that in transmitting it for ratification he deemed it a

how proclaims to have been

a mere

necessity to caution.

necessary the Imperial Government as to it's character

and tendencies .

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of the letter

the

on

is undoubtedly retrospective

comm

that this Ordinance is un and that Buildings -enactment are liable to it's penalties" !

enced before it's of

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this

Coliny has systematically violated me of the very first bases of our legislative policy, whether at abroad - namely, that our law shall

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not be retrospective"

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mere

that

an

expost facts lay

abstract injustice but an act of

having

ade the

of my

tyranny of the gravest and most provoking character

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Majectory Government or to the bi trick Pegligent, the pigure

approprial of the Materials formy property to the of the State in the construction of a Government Building.

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