the Public Works Department were to be afforded opportunity of attending Divine Service.
The notification, copy of which I enclose, went on to state that in all contracts Sunday was to be omitted in calculating the time necessary to complete the particular work referred to.
On the 20th of February, 1845, a Proclamation, copy enclosed, was issued to the same effect. Your Lordship will observe that this Proclamation particularly mentions that the Laws of England enjoining a cessation from Sunday labour were in force in the Colony. This statement had reference probably to the Ordinances I have before mentioned, although it was scarcely consistent with the decision given by the Police Magistrate in the case mentioned by Mr...
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Enclosure 2. 20th February 1845
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the Public Works Department
were to be afforded opportunity of attending
Divine Service.
The notification, copy of
which I enclose, went on
to state that in all contracts
Sunday
was to be omitted
in calculating the time necessary to complete the particular work referred
to.
On the 20th of February,
1845, a Proclamation, copy
enclosed, was issued to
the
same effect. Your
Lordship will observe that this Proclamation particularly mentions that the Laws of England enjoining a cessation from Sunday labour
labour were
in force in the Colony. This statement had reference
probably to the Ordinances I have before mentioned,
although it was
scarcely
consistent with the decision
given by the Police Magistrate
in the case mentioned by
Mr...
Enclosure 1. 28th June, 1844
Enclosure 2. 20th February 1845
Page 83