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moment Ordinance 8 of 1856 is operative or not; whether it is in fact disallowed, or whether, unconfirmed and unamended, it is still in its experimental character perally effective. contravening it in all cases.
We must take the liberty of correcting a paragraph in Your Excellency's reply.
The Meeting, recognizing it could not complain of the retrospective character of the Ordinance, as is stated in the dispatch now under notice, but against the asserted retrospective action of the law maintained by Your Excellency's Executive in the face of several repeated and adverse Magisterial decisions, the resolution did, as a reference to it will plainly show, most undeniably and emphatically protest.
Neither can we admit the existence of any just grounds for Your Excellency's subsequent conclusion that there are cases, however...