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American Sailors, and Calling my particular attention to the crime, and to the propriety of adopting suppression.

MicaLures

to the notice

for its

I have brought the matter of the Legislative Council who with respectfully

to refer

to the betinance, Mo

of 1852, passed so lately as 18th of May last, and confirmed by

Her Most Gracions Majesty

intimated in

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Your Despatch

as

Military #3 of 27th August..-_

The provisions of that

Ordinance seem to myself and

the Council as stringent

as

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it is possible to make them; and they have been hitherto

effective, though it is to be

abuitted that the

abduction

of

caules

f

Soldiers are not

now in such strong operation

the

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formerly; however wild with all deference suggest that when this ordinance is found

insufficient for

its purpose,

there need be no difficulty

in parsing a stronger and

forcible enactment

on the rueantime the subject shall be carefully

attended to, and

every

endeavour

made by the Goverment.