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shall be only placed before the Legislative Council, when the Draft Ordinance shall also be submitted for adoption by that body.
But as this Ordinance
3.
can
be
passed at
any
time,
and there is no immediate
occasion for it, your Lordship's instructions being that nothing
is to be done under it until receipt of further directions, I
trust your Grace will approve my delaying for a time the application to the Council.
4.
As far as
I can see, no inconvenience can arise from
delay, as care shall be taken
that the Council and the public
have full and sufficiently early opportunity of considering the question, and in the meantime
information on the subject (at present but scanty) will possibly be increased from various quarters.
I take occasion to ask if
it be necessary
to retain the
word "Silver" in the first
paragraph of the draft Ordinance,
as it seems to me
that
if a
regular Mint be established here it would be well to have out the dies already made for