CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 122

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secure to the count. an

unbroken long vacation of

6 konth's annually. agree with

you.

I

in thinking

that it should be reduced

to

at least one half of

that time.

But although

I suppose the body of these rules to be, with this

crception, unobjectionable I have not been able

to advise the Queen to

conform them. On the

Contrary,

I have thought

it my duty Mapstyy to disallow them,

to advise Her

& I am commanded to

i

signify to you & through to the judge, Hee Property's

you

1

pleasure that they hig

accordingly.

disallowed accor.

The explanation of this

seeming inconsiston.

N

is obvious. It is, that if these rules were permitted to continue in force they

would constitute an

cxception at once needless

& inconvenient to the

ordle

general suction made since

their promulgation that

no rules of court thould

be valid until they had

و

been confirmed by

act of the local

AZ

legeslature. It will therefore remain for the

judge to promulgate

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