branch
by
the increase in the
number
of
Ordinances passed
during the last ten years as
compared with the previous corresponding Period. Thus the.
number
of
Ordinances passed
between the 31th of March 1850.
and the 31" of March 1860. (when the revision
of
the bivil dist
took place ) amounts only to 79,
while the number passed
between the 31th of March 1860.
and the 34th
March
of 1870, amounts to. 130; and I may mention that since 1866, although absent on
sick Leave
414
for fifteen months, &
myself prepared
50 of them.
no less than
Smeed scarcely remark
that the labor, and responsibili.
ty of Drafting these Ordinances, and of altering revising, and amending them while being discussed, and passed by the Tegislative bouncil is of itself
very considerable; but the he. - cords of your office
can testify
to the vast number of Legal
i
opinions
on every
branch
of the
EX
Law which I have been called