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MY LORD DUKE,
No. 88.
(BRITISH GULANA.)
QUEEN'S ADVOCATE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Doctors' Commons, November 7, 1861.
I AM honoured with your Grace's commands signified in Mr. Elliot's letter of the 23rd October ultimo, stating that with reference to Sir Frederic Rogers' letter of the 12th February last he was directed to transmit to me for my Report, the copy of a Despatch from the Lieutenant-Governor of British Guiana submitting an No. 61, Ordinance" for better enforcing discipline among the clergy of the United Church Sept. 7,1881. " of England and Ireland within this Colony," together with a copy of a Despatch No. 16 of addressed by your Grace to Governor Wodehouse on the 30th April last. And to request that I would state my opinion as to whether there is any reason why Her April 30, Majesty should not be advised to confirm the Ordinance.
1881.
No. 258,
1881.
Mr. Elliot was also pleased to state that your Grace has also referred these papers for the consideration of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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In obedience to your Grace's commands, I have taken these papers into considera- tion, and have the honour to
Report
That in my former Report of March 4th I entered fully into the many serious objections to this Ordinance as it then stood, and stated my reasons for advising your Grace that Her Majesty should not confirm it.
Her Majesty's confirmation was thereupon withheld; some of those objections were stated to Governor Wodehouse in your Grace's Despatch No. 258 (30th April last), and the Ordinance has been in some material portions altered, so as to obviate those particular objections, as explained in the Report of the Colonial Attorney General of September 6th.
observe, morever, that the Attorney General states that the Ordinance as altered, has been brought into immediate operation in pursuance of the permission to that effect contained in your Grace's Despatch.
Under these circumstances, although (as will be perceived on reference to my former Report) I still consider the Ordinance open to very serious objections, which I need not now recapitulate, yet I cannot, as matters stand, advise your Grace that Her Majesty should not confirm this Ordinance which has been amended in accordance with your Grace's suggestions, and is actually in operation,
Subject, therefore, to any communication from his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, I am of opinion that Her Majesty should be advised to confirm this Ordinance.
I have, &c. (Signed)
The Right Hon. the Duke of Newcastle,
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do.
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