Your Excellency,
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Race love 18 SEP 19
Your subject, on behalf of the gentry and elders present and the people whom they represent in this part of the territory, thank Your Excellency for your trouble and condescension in coming here. We have been waiting for this visit with as much anxiety as those who, in time of drought, await the refreshing rain. Your kindness in visiting us has given us the privilege of seeing you in person while the speech we have just heard, so dignified and so clear, has increased our reverence for Your Excellency.
We are well aware that Your Excellency's policy in this territory is a kind and benevolent one and your subjects are unanimous in their feeling of gratitude.
Your Excellency's character will act as a transforming influence for good among us. We also predict that this barren region will become a land of wealth and progress under Your Excellency's administration. What we feel with the deepest pleasure is that all evils are being now eradicated while what is good and noble are being encouraged. Law and order, peace and prosperity, alike distinguish Your Excellency's Government.
We pray that Your Excellency will when memorialising the Throne, tender to Her Gracious Majesty the humble submission and