but he intimates that this is contrary to the settled practice of Houghong, and either then or subsequently he shpulales (1) that no paper is to be delayed 24 hours (2) that no further step, even the most ordinary stap, such as to refer a paper for the opinion of the head of another department, is to be lahen on even the most

the most ordinary paper without the Governor's sanction This seemed to he

the

lying Colonial Secretarys hands in a

humiliating and

degue at once

niconvenient for the public

Service

Even & Sitel, hom

Dr

Our Hennessy thinks so

highly, nof

Junion that it would not always

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mogramy

ho posible not to delay a paper

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24 hours, and that a measure of independent action on the part of the Colonial Secretary is unobjectionable

Sir John

Bowrings definition of the duties of a Colonial Secretary of Homphony

ùs more

ѝ

with the views of

in accordance

Jur March

and Dr Stewart and, I take it,

with those of Sir M. Hicks Beach as Confidential expressed in his despatch of 27 Anguss in reply to Tur Hennesy of 30 May. From 31 may to

6 September Mr Hennesywas absent and the march administering

On the receipt of Sir

Mr. Hicks Beach's despatch of 27 August, which would be sometime

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