177
)
express
as
3.
variance with the Queen's Regulations, and
Your Excellency calls upon
me
to
say
whether the Queen has
specially
invested
}
me with the command of Her Majesty's Regular forces in this Colony.
2.
Mby two letters to which
Your Excellency thus refers have been
submitted to the Excentive Council and
Your Excelleney's
letter
of the 19th instant
my
which reached me -during the sitting of the Council was also submitted to
advisers and those honourable unanimously concurred with
gentlemen
me in
thinking that Your Excellency (whose :statements also at the Connail Table they had the advantage of listening to) was entirely
mistaken in the views
you__
in the
to the letters in
question. As to the two points
at
issue
correspondence, that with respect to
the Band playing at Government House.
instead of Your Excellency's House and the
in the
parading re of the Troops in of the Queen's. Representative
presence
on the Queen's
Birthday, your collegues at the Executive
bouncil
am in
are also of opinion that I the right, and that Your Exellency would only be acting
numerous
you
in accordance with
Colony if
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precedents in this
would be good enough to make
arrangements accordingly. I suggested about five o'clock p.m. For
as
the
inspection.
it would be a convenient time
convenient time for the
inhabitants who like to see a
formal
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