in reply
reply to my despatch 1:255 of the 25th of July, that the Commission of the 7th March, 1884, is still in force, but that the words "and its dependencies" contained in clause 11 thereof
II inserted by
in adopting
in force
2.
a
were
inadvertence
a commission
in a
larger Colony.
I venture to point out to Your Lordship that if these words have any force at all, which I presume they have, inasmuch as they were considered necessary in the Commission referred to, it appears that they are equally essential to me in any Commission relating to this Colony. I can scarcely think that it is the size of a Colony which determines whether it is a Colony with or without Dependencies; a very large Colony may have no Dependencies at all, whereas
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