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Ordinance for 1893 and the protest there against by the unofficial members, that I consider that no case has been made out either for disallowing the Ordinance, for effecting the immediate reductions moved for in Committee on Supply in certain salaries; and I see no reason to alter the opinion which the Colonial Secretary expressed in opposing a motion made on the 9th May last for the appointment of a retrenchment Commission, that the appointment of such a Commission is unnecessary and undesirable.
But it will probably be convenient to Your Lordship that I should deal seriatim with the various representations and contentions contained in the memorial, and I shall accordingly proceed to do so, referring to the numbers.
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