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nefarious practices.
5. Tonly regret that for a long period after receipt of Your Grace's despatch above mentioned of September last,
mm
year Juar
was
under the impression that by smithing the only portions of the former Ordinance to which objection had been tatten I would have been authorized sto proclaim a fresh Ordinance substantially the same with the exception of those omifsions. I found however that
Ordinance of
I
any
the kind must first be transmitted to
and official
notice given me of
England Her Majectip's approval of it, before
I could proclaim it in the balony, notinthatinding
that I had been previously apprized
there
was
mo
objection to its provisions.
that
to. This has caused some delay
puitting in force a useful
in
measure, but
the other hand it has led to the
introduction of some fresh provisions, which
I think will be found to render the enclosed
a
considerable
of last.
year,
improvement on the Ordinance
I trust therefore to receive
and
early notification of Her Majesty's confirmation of it.
I have the honor to be,
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's most cbestient, humble Sewant,
Hechend Rancy Macdonnell
Governor.