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rests that control in the Governor and Executive Council. For all political and administrative experience tends to show that the semblance without the substance of power and responsibility is purely mischievous. Nor would it be just or fair to my successors in my present office, or to the Executive Council; that the public of this Colony should erroneously suppose that the responsibility for the management of
· The Fire Brigade really rests where the existing law has placed that responsibility. It is proper that it should be clearly understood that the functions of the Governor and of the Executive Council of a Crown Colony in this, as in other matters, have now become mainly of a ministerial character, viz: to carry out the minute instructions respecting all the details of public business and expenditure which are received from the Colonial Department in London.
I have the honour to be
My Lord,
Your Lordship's Most obedient Humble Servant,
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