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forms which
of the forms
attaches to the
usage
opening
and
closing of regular sessions,
and which Sir G. Bowen
introduced
for
the first-
time into this Colony. And
Colony.
this altogether apart from the
question whether such forms which are appropriate enough
large e
in
communities are not
more calculated to excite.
ridicule, than to induce -respect, in connection with
a
Legislature composed of
only
87
only ten members. Without entering into particulars, which would necessarily appear come what invidious, with reference to proceedings initiated by my predecessor, I nevertheless deem it my duty to express the opinion, that the only good object. -effected by a regular session
would be equally well attained without it, if the Governor,
onee a
year, (probably the
introduction of the Estimates
would