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9.
Ao
a
threat. Every
are
Officials and Nor Officials,
in the settlement
of
of the Members,
the
paint
interested
and
they alone could effectively by their voles, by their protest, or, by an appeal to the Secretary of State for the
Colenies
purt
end to
ar
system
so destrictive of the officiancy of the
Cameit.
8. If such a letter
violation
Mules
of
was not a
of the standing Orders and
the Camcil, the sommer Members
understood that they must not aste
question, the better. If the letter
avv
attack on
wao
the freedom of speech
accorded the Legislative Poenaillon
Ornow it
AN
of the
alearly my duty to
t is t
lay it before then and to inviter them to take steps, if not to
vindicate their
those
of
rights and
the public, at least, to
get than vindicated and protected by higher Auchority.
7. There is nothing so efential to the well being of the Camoil and -
its utility than perfect freedom of word in speech, and freedom of spruch becomes
a
-nullity if it is to be so eiraum scribed that a question may not
be asked about the duties
about the duties of the
: 4). different departiments of the Government
without danger of receiving such a letter as that of the 2d. Septembe last from the Amorable the Colonial
C.