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I am bound to say that I believe the Legislative Council is unanimously of opinion that if Her Majesty's Government is determined to enforce the demand, it would, under the circumstances which I have explained, be better and more constitutional if legal effect were given to such a decision by a permanent order in Council, pronouncing it to be both impolitic and unjust.
I have the honour to be, Sir, Your Most Obedient Servant, M[ac]G[regor] M[acleod]
As nothing can be more calculated to bring the function of legislation into contempt than to require the real Legislature from year to year to enact a measure which by a majority of eight to one it concurs with the entire community
With reference to paragraph 5 of this despatch, I beg to add that while the accompanying mails are being made up, the letter from the
10th September, 1854.