483
has reference to Letters Pateur under the Greas Ecal, which I need not
not the case with
regard
Day is ~ to Letters issued
under the Colonial Ordinance. Moreover
Ordinance No 14 of 18ts is limited to Patents for Inventions whereas the Act Letters Palent
ambraces wiction its
generally.
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If the only reason for Ihr Emalis advising the then Acting Governor to [deloy the proclamation of the Air be the one contained in the concludiing paragraph of the communication addressa by him to
yourself
on the 4th day of December 1863, I
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aan
th
of quinion that
insufficient. One of live things by the Secretary of States direction were
to have been dene, the Act was to have?
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been "forshurik proclaimed or a
furnished upon
the
Qubject,
ov a resort report
but it could
hardly have been urged by Mit Smals
that the probability of Sir Hercules Robinson having had some communication wich the Colonial Office on the subjeer of Patents could form the subjcer of a Report from
the Office Administering the Gevernment,
and curtainly could not operate
excuse
for
as
ай
we avish an express
compliance
direction proceeding from the stead of that
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Office. I therefore chinse the Act should have been "forchurch proclaimed. As however that has not been done, I
have no hesitation whation in now
commending
that the same be proclaimed
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