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the local Legislature. If the objection now taken in your despatch to the Ordinance is merely an exception as to that the framers' intentions in regards this point are not expressed with sufficient clearness, the objection would perhaps be removed by the adoption of the accompanying Amendments which I beg to submit for your consideration.
But if, as is probable, you disapprove of the local Legislature interfering in respect to the furnishing of Supplies to belligerent vessels anchored outside the Colonial limits on the ground of a vessel so anchored being too remote a subject for Colonial legislation, the Ordinance for it I may as well be disallowed was framed and passed under instructions from the Secretary of State to effect precisely that very object; and any legislation short of that would, in consequence of the peculiar circumstances of the Colony, be fully ineffectual.
As explaining the difficulty which is more felt here in amending the Ordinance without further information, I beg to forward some observations