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Government to the views
I was
Mi
which
acting, I did es because they
involved the retention
of
abandonment
a real motive power in questions considerable political importance The fullest cariction was
given also to
to
then
my proceedings, and my interpretation of Mxecutive Councillor's outh.
10.
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I must therefore invite attention to the singular position in which I would have :been placed in Australia and America, if my had claimed entire freedom from the special obligation of
Ministers
an
Ixecutive Councillors oath - and
declined to take
of
any
but the
Ordinary oath of allegiance, on the ground that the former practice had been abrogated by the Secretar State's Circular despatch of May 1857, - and that I had no right to administer the Special bath of Executive Councillor in Nova Scotia or Australia, than in Stoughoug.
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11.
I have
no doubt that
objections would have been raised by
an
some
to
taking
such
outh, had they been aware
of the different practice here