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Mr Ackroyd.
When Sir John Pope Hennessy was Governor, the question of Sunday labour was again revived, and in a memorial which was presented to him on the subject it was stated that no new legislation was needed inasmuch as the Statute 29th of Charles the 2nd Chapter 7 was, in the opinion of the Memorialists, in force. This caused Sir John Hennessy to make enquiries as to the extent to which Sunday labour was carried on in the several departments, and I find it mentioned in a letter from M. Price, the Surveyor General, to the Acting Colonial Chaplain, dated the 11th of August, 1878, that His Excellency had given such instructions as he trusted would have the effect of putting a stop to all