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MY LORD,
No. 429.
(CANADA.)
LAW OFFICERS to FOREIGN OFFICE.
Lincoln's Inn, October 6, 1866. We are honoured with your Lordship's commands, signified in Mr Egerton's letter of the 5th ultimo, stating that with reference to our letter of the 31st of August last,* furnishing your Lordship with our opinion as to certain Acts passed by the Canadian Legislature with regard to aggressions by foreign subjects in time of peace, he was directed by your Lordship to transmit to us a letter from the Colonial Office, forward- ing two further Acts relating to the same subject, which have been passed by the Parliament of Canada, and Mr. Egerton was to request that we would take these documents into our consideration, and inform your Lordship whether we see in them anything which modifies the opinion expressed in our letter above referred to.
In obedience to your Lordship's commands we have the honour to
Report
That we have considered the documents now forwarded to us, and see nothing in them to induce us to modify the opinion we had the honour to express in our letter of the 31st of August last, although we observe that the Acts have been passed with the retrospective operation which Lord Carnarvon proposed to state could not be sanctioned (see Sir F. Rogers' letter to Mr. Hammond of 8th August 1866, page 5).
We have, &c. (Signed)
H. M. CAIRNS.
W. BOVILL.
ROBERT PHILLIMORE.
The Lord Stanley.
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