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A year-to which the Treasury was then not willing to consent. And it is equally true as your despatch states that in representing the difficulties which the new and unusual management had created I made no demand for salary and that the changes that took place were "effected without reference to Salary". But I must respectfully beg leave to state that I did not supersede the arrangements made by the Duke of Newcastle. I endeavoured to carry out, according to my understanding of those arrangements, to give them full effect, and to exercise no authority with which I was not invested as the supreme functionary in the Colony-and the President of the Legislative Council, of which during my presence in the island the Lieutenant Governor was not even a member until created by Her Majesty's Warrant dated 7th June 1855.

10. When however by order of Sir George Grey the state of matters was restored exactly to the position in which they stood in the time of my predecessors, I could not but anticipate that the new-

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A year-to which the Treasury was then not willing to consent. And it is equally true as your despatch states that in representing the difficulties which the new and unusual management had created I made no demand for salary and that the changes that took place were "effected without reference to Salary". But I must respectfully beg leave to state that I did not supersede the arrangements made by the Duke of Newcastle. I endeavoured to carry out, according to my understanding of those arrangements, to give them full effect, and to exercise no authority with which I was not invested as the supreme functionary in the Colony-and the President of the Legislative Council, of which during my presence in the island the Lieutenant Governor was not even a member until created by Her Majesty's Warrant dated 7th June 1855.

10. When however by order of Sir George Grey the state of matters was restored exactly to the position in which they stood in the time of my predecessors, I could not but anticipate that the new-

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A year-to which the Treasury was then not willing to consent. And it is equally true as your despatch states that in representing the difficulties which the new and unusual management had created I made no demand for salary and that the changes that took place were "effected without reference to Salary". But I must respectfully beg leave to state that I did not supersede the arrangements made by the Duke of Newcastle. I endeavoured to carry out, according to my understanding of those arrangements, to give them full effect, and to exercise no authority with which I was not invested as the supreme functionary in the Colony-and the President of the Legislative Council, of which during my presence in the island the Lieutenant Governor was not even a member until created by Her Majesty's Warrant dated 7th June 1855.

10. When however by order of Sir George Grey the state of matters was restored exactly to the position in which they stood in the time of my predecessors, I could not but anticipate that the new-

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A year-to which the Treasury was then not willing to consent. And it is equally true as your despatch states that in representing the difficulties which the new and unusual management had created I made no demand for salary and that the changes that took place were "effected without reference to Salary". But I must respectfully beg leave to state that I did not supersede the arrangements made by the Duke of Newcastle. I endeavoured to carry out, according to my understanding of those arrangements, to give them full effect, and to exercise no authority with which I was not invested as the supreme functionary in the Colony-and the President of the Legislative Council, of which during my presence in the island the Lieutenant Governor was not even a member until created by Her Majesty's Warrant dated 7th June 1855. 10. When however by order of Sir George Grey the state of matters was restored exactly to the position in which they stood in the time of my predecessors, I could not but anticipate that the new- Page 287 appears to be delineated by the original scanning process, so the following lines are kept as is: Page 287 ... (three lines at the top and bottom are usually kept as page information) However, to follow the exact output format requested: A year-to which the Treasury was then not willing to consent. And it is equally true as your despatch states that in representing the difficulties which the new and unusual management had created I made no demand for salary and that the changes that took place were "effected without reference to Salary". But I must respectfully beg leave to state that I did not supersede the arrangements made by the Duke of Newcastle. I endeavoured to carry out, according to my understanding of those arrangements, to give them full effect, and to exercise no authority with which I was not invested as the supreme functionary in the Colony-and the President of the Legislative Council, of which during my presence in the island the Lieutenant Governor was not even a member until created by Her Majesty's Warrant dated 7th June 1855. 10. When however by order of Sir George Grey the state of matters was restored exactly to the position in which they stood in the time of my predecessors, I could not but anticipate that the new- Page 287 ... ... Page 287 Rewritten to fit the exact output format without markdown or extra lines: A year-to which the Treasury was then not willing to consent. And it is equally true as your despatch states that in representing the difficulties which the new and unusual management had created I made no demand for salary and that the changes that took place were "effected without reference to Salary". But I must respectfully beg leave to state that I did not supersede the arrangements made by the Duke of Newcastle. I endeavoured to carry out, according to my understanding of those arrangements, to give them full effect, and to exercise no authority with which I was not invested as the supreme functionary in the Colony-and the President of the Legislative Council, of which during my presence in the island the Lieutenant Governor was not even a member until created by Her Majesty's Warrant dated 7th June 1855. 10. When however by order of Sir George Grey the state of matters was restored exactly to the position in which they stood in the time of my predecessors, I could not but anticipate that the new- Page 287 Page 287 Page 287
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