I have received your Lordship's instructions, and I therefore hope that the matter is of considerable importance that I may be favoured with an early reply.
I have the honour to be, Your Lordship's, Most Obedient Servant;
As I would have been very unwilling in any case to have proclaimed an Ordinance of so peculiar a nature without previous sanction. I have considered that in transmitting it in its present form I practically lose no time for if an alteration be required and the extent of alteration be known it will only require a few days after the receipt of the necessary information to pass the Ordinance in an amended form.
This is the course which I mean to pursue when I shall read a third time the Bill which has been passed by the Legislature but will not be proclaimed for the present time, but with the principal difficulty having been the creation of such a Court.
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The Piracy Ordinance has been passed by the Legislature, the difficulty has been the creation of such a Court.
R. F. MartinDonnell, Aeria, I send the draft Bill to be able to ... Whether it should be band...
Copy of draft letter...
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