His Excellency has no doubt as to the plain reading of the deportation Ordinance and will act accordingly.
I have,
(Signed)
W. F. Mercer,
Colonial Secretary.
(True Copy. John)
Colonial Secretary.
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Downing Street,
Victoria
My Lord,
8 February, 1857
I have received from the Attorney General the letter which I have the honor to transmit Copy with a proposed Ordinance which Mr Attorney deems necessary in consequence of the cases of poisoning which have excited much interest and created so many apprehensions in the Colony. The Right Honorable
P.
Henry Labouchere, M.P.,