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from inexperience

these subjects, led with the

wonderstand

have tear

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that that the

A

law is

neglect of

a rule by

which

it were

white

duty to be guided, dich

requires the transmission,

those of transmitting with

How

every

n

Law, an

explanatory

report of the motives by

which it has been suggested

and

of

the results

anticipated from it. Such

Reports should be more

or less copious according to the

importance

or the difficulty

of the subject to which

every

much Ordinance

may

refer.

But

the preamble

will readily

seldom sufficient to explain

the policy in which it has

originated, and is not always

sufficient to render clear the

real meaning of the enactments which it comprises.

Such ambiguity is especially perceptible, and is peculiarly inconvenient when the Legislative Act to be submitted for the Royal

decision originates in a

so remote

Colony

as that under

your Government, and is

passed under circumstances

so peculiar

to those which

understand

are