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certain indispensable preliminaries had been arranged, he lost no time in making those appointments.
(5) Neither on the occasion of His Excellency's announcing the constitution nor of the Committee which he intended to appoint, for long afterwards, did you offer any objection or suggestion, and it was only when all the necessary arrangements had been completed that you complained to His Excellency that the appointment of three official members, exclusive of the Chairman, was not in strict accordance with the terms of the instruction of the Secretary of State. His Excellency did not, and does not, think it likely that the Secretary of State intended his phrase of one or two "other Government officers". to
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