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been declared to have been
carried. On this point I
reference to
would solicit
my despatch N. 344 of 21st ultimo (copy annexed), from which Your Lordship
will see that even
if the
contention that under the
constitution of this
Colony official members of Council are disqualified from voting for their
own
salaries,
(which I doubt) the conclusion
that the Appropriation
Ordinance
was
not legally passed does not flow from the premises.
For each item in the Bill
was
separately moved, and
each amendment thereto
likewise; and if the vote of the official concerned in each case be counted as
null and void, that of the Colonial Secretary, for example,
in the case
of the item of the Colonial Secretary's establishment,
that of the Treasurer in the
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