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Council Chamber,

Victoria, 2nd November, 1844.

GENTLEMEN,

Your letter of the 31st ultimo having failed to be delivered till the 1st instant and consequently not till after your second Memorial (in which no reference whatever was made to it) had been replied to, the Governor and Council have only this day had an opportunity of considering it.

I am directed on this occasion to acquaint you that the Governor and Council see with surprise and regret a re-assertion on your part of the sentiments contained in your former letter and which has already met with the strongest mark they could possibly affix to it of their reprobation.

Could the Governor and Council have foreseen such an unbecoming persistence in the expression of your opinions however veiled by your disavowal of intentional disrespect, the Governor and Council would most assuredly have abstained from paying the smallest attention to your second Memorial.

Under these circumstances the Governor and Council deem it right you should know that all further communication must cease between the Government and yourselves while such sentiments continue to be maintained by you, and that you are indebted wholly to the ignorance of the Governor and Council occasioned by the delay of your letter of the 31st ultimo, for any answer whatever to what now appears to be in fact your third communication.

I have the honor to be, Gentlemen,

Your most obedient Servant,

ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,

Clerk of Councils.

MESSRS. F. A. GIBB,

D. MATHESON,

S. RAWSON,

P. DUDGEON, AUGS. CARTER,

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Council Chamber, Victoria, 2nd November, 1844. GENTLEMEN, Your letter of the 31st ultimo having failed to be delivered till the 1st instant and consequently not till after your second Memorial (in which no reference whatever was made to it) had been replied to, the Governor and Council have only this day had an opportunity of considering it. I am directed on this occasion to acquaint you that the Governor and Council see with surprise and regret a re-assertion on your part of the sentiments contained in your former letter and which has already met with the strongest mark they could possibly affix to it of their reprobation. Could the Governor and Council have foreseen such an unbecoming persistence in the expression of your opinions however veiled by your disavowal of intentional disrespect, the Governor and Council would most assuredly have abstained from paying the smallest attention to your second Memorial. Under these circumstances the Governor and Council deem it right you should know that all further communication must cease between the Government and yourselves while such sentiments continue to be maintained by you, and that you are indebted wholly to the ignorance of the Governor and Council occasioned by the delay of your letter of the 31st ultimo, for any answer whatever to what now appears to be in fact your third communication. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servant, ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY, Clerk of Councils. MESSRS. F. A. GIBB, D. MATHESON, S. RAWSON, P. DUDGEON, AUGS. CARTER,

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In 230 thing 213 Council Chamber, Victoria, 2nd November, 1844. GENTLEMEN,Your letter of the 31st ultimo having failed to be delivered till the 1st instant and consequently not till after your second Memorial (in which no reference whatever, was made to it) had been replied to, the Governor and Coun- cil have only this day had an opportunity of considering it. I am directed on this occasion to acquaint you that the Governor and Council see with surprise and regret a re-asser- tion on your part of the sentiments contained in your former letter and which has already met with the strongest mark they could possibly affix to it of their reprobation. Could the Governor and Council have foreseen such an unbecoming persistance in the expression of your opinions however veiled by your disavowal of intentional disrespect the Governor and Council would most assuredly have abstain- el from paying the smallest attention to your second Memo- rial. Under these circumstances the Governor and Council deem right you should know that all further communi- cation must cease between the Government and yourselves while such sentiments continue to be maintained by you, and that you are indebted wholly to the ignorance of the Governor and Council occasioned by the delay of your letter of the 31st ultimo, for any answer whatever to what now appears to be in fact your third communication. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servant, ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY, Clerk of Councils. MESSRS. F. A. GIBB, D. MATHESON, S. RAWSON, P. DUDGEON, AUGS. CARTER, 1

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Council Chamber,

Victoria, 2nd November, 1844. GENTLEMEN,Your letter of the 31st ultimo having failed to be delivered till the 1st instant and consequently not till after your second Memorial (in which no reference whatever, was made to it) had been replied to, the Governor and Coun- cil have only this day had an opportunity of considering it.

I am directed on this occasion to acquaint you that the Governor and Council see with surprise and regret a re-asser- tion on your part of the sentiments contained in your former letter and which has already met with the strongest mark they could possibly affix to it of their reprobation.

Could the Governor and Council have foreseen such an unbecoming persistance in the expression of your opinions however veiled by your disavowal of intentional disrespect the Governor and Council would most assuredly have abstain- el from paying the smallest attention to your second Memo-

rial.

Under these circumstances the Governor and Council deem right you should know that all further communi- cation must cease between the Government and yourselves while such sentiments continue to be maintained by you, and that you are indebted wholly to the ignorance of the Governor and Council occasioned by the delay of your letter of the 31st ultimo, for any answer whatever to what now appears to be in fact your third communication.

I have the honor to be, Gentlemen,

Your most obedient Servant,

ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,

Clerk of Councils.

MESSRS. F. A. GIBB,

D. MATHESON,

S. RAWSON,

P. DUDGEON, AUGS. CARTER,

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