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follows that any recommendations which the Committee or any of its members may make, by no means necessarily will derive weight in proportion to the number of the members making the several recommendations, but solely from the amount of reason and good sense which the recommendations may severally contain. You have practically informed the Government and the public on more than one occasion that you have suggestions to make which are feasible and which would enable very important reductions to be made in the expenditure of the Colony, and you apparently are of opinion that you can propound those suggestions only through the instrumentality of a Retrenchment Committee. Whatever