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position of

of

plexes Coung Thirring in the best ramenste

Serving

of

having deliberately, and against the If only. byent, and in the face of two previous Judicial decisions in and ofpressive art on my favor

the

action

my favor and by forced

part of the Executive

on

Government, procured the destruction of property and it

sigure

and that undone

the

to the

uses

of my

ce

which he himself operation of an Ordinance -

now prsations tentative but of legislation, soundouts - tedly stringent" "that in transmitting it for ratification he deemed it a

how proclaims to have been

a mere

necessity to caution.

necessary the Imperial Government as to it's character

and tendencies .

4 —

His Excellency further in the sixth paragraph

of the letter

the

on

is undoubtedly retrospective

comm

that this Ordinance is un and that Buildings -enactment are liable to it's penalties" !

enced before it's of

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scarcely

have

no

it

chris

jordanset of for you have that the Gaming

Lice Sir, but to accept

i

it as

one

this

Coliny has systematically violated me of the very first bases of our legislative policy, whether at abroad - namely, that our law shall

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home of

not be retrospective"

is not a

This

admission

mere

that

an

expost facts lay

abstract injustice but an act of

having

ade the

of my

tyranny of the gravest and most provoking character

Excellency, however, hay

that be procured the destruction of houses under the penalty not merely of an esper facts fours, but of a movoly" rxperimental but of legislation is doubtle by propane di ti justify

Majectory Government or to the bi trick Pegligent, the pigure

approprial of the Materials formy property to the of the State in the construction of a Government Building.

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