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for fortifications and
of the
raising of the Loan at home
instead of here, both which
decisions were
undoubtedly most unpopular. In 1875, when Governor Hennessy informed the Council
that he intended to recommend
to the Secretary of State that the meetings of the Finance Committee should, in future, be held in public, he appears to have made this suggestion spontaneously and not in consequence of any representations of public
dissatisfaction
5.
The resolution of the
Honourable A.P. McCowen was
met
by
amendment proposed
by the Acting Attorney General
that it is not necessary
to
interfere with the present practice
of Council, which has been in existence for many years,
and
was
unanimously adopted
by the standing rules and orders of Council dated 10th April, 1884. This amendment was supported
by the Treasurer and the Chief
Justice