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I venture to believe that Your ~ Lordship will approve our decision)
that it is far
more important to
adhere to Statute law and to m
constitutional
usage by conforming
scrupulously
to the Notes of the
Legislature, than to attempt to. enforce, without previous legislative sanction, a pedantie uniformity of emoluments in cases where the circumstances are not identical. All men of practical experience in Government and in
the
administration
administration of public affairs,
will
agree.
that
complete uniformity
in this respect without identity
of eircumstances, whatever favour
it
may find with theoretical bureaucracies in England
Or
elsewhere, is undesirable even
if
it were practicable, and impracticable,
desirable.
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even
if it
were
ext present, in the
five principal departments of the Excentive Government of Wonghong the salaries of the Departmental
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