being calculated to convey an erroneous impression on several points to which it relates, it becomes our duty to prolong this correspondence so far as may be necessary to obviate misconstruction.
The purport of your Excellency's reply concisely stated with reference to the several Resolutions of the Meeting appears to us to be as follows. Resolution 1. Has already been met in some degree by the spontaneous action of H.M's Secretary of State for the Colonies who in "recognizing the experimental feature of the Ordinance has... postponed its confirmation": Resolution 2. Your Excellency convinced of the expediency of the legislation against which this Resolution protested declines to admit it to your favorable consideration: Resolution 3. Your Excellency views with favor, proposing due notice of Legislative enactments and hoping in accordance with the general
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