3/
30
The retirement of the Jury Attorney General thought that this proceeding by bill/ordinance whose provisions were all subjected to the revision
of the
Council and whose character was even more
conciliatory and correct than I had
contemplated, was
ever
far preferable to my applying simply for a Supplementary vote for £14,000 which I proposed to be taken in the service of 1859 for the work under consideration. The Surveyor General had also urged objections against proceeding by asking a vote of money
first
for the proposed work, and
carrying it
out under the undoubted powers
of the Crown
The leases
gave
rise
to the representation that his own
position
was
a very painful one
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having the undivided
responsibility of fixing rents and damages, - a responsibility, from which
he desired to be relieved. I therefore appointed the Surveyor General, the Colonial Treasurer and the Acting Attorney General to draw
up an Ordinance.
And was assured by them individually
and collectively that they were satisfied with the ordinance they had prepared
- it gave every security to the finances
of the Colony, remedied the objections
of the Surveyor General and was satisfactory to the Acting Attorney General in all questions of a legal character.
W. Dent (voting
however