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period, but I would publish Ordinance in Draft, and invite deliberate Comment on it before passing. In Ordinary cases a fortnight would suffice for this, or say a month - while in graver I would give three months or even more if necessary - but this is a matter that should be left entirely with the Governor who would limit or extend the period pro re nata.

The inconvenience of fixing 3 months is that when you have got all the information upon the subject which you can get, or when the purpose of the Ordinance is likely to get its ends, or when the Ordinance is unobjectionable, what possible end is answered by delaying its operation?

The last resolution refers to the Establishment of a Colonial Committee, and, on the understanding that the Committee was to give its assistance to the Government; I would hail the proposal with satisfaction. But as the Secretary of State has recently repeated the principles on which this Government is to be conducted, I do not think the Governor

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67 period, but I would publish Ordinance in Draft, and invite deliberate Comment on it before passing. In Ordinary cases a fortnight would suffice for this, or say a month - while in graver I would give three months or even more if necessary - but this is a matter that should be left entirely with the Governor who would limit or extend the period pro re nata. The inconvenience of fixing 3 months is that when you have got all the information upon the subject which you can get, or when the purpose of the Ordinance is likely to get its ends, or when the Ordinance is unobjectionable, what possible end is answered by delaying its operation? The last resolution refers to the Establishment of a Colonial Committee, and, on the understanding that the Committee was to give its assistance to the Government; I would hail the proposal with satisfaction. But as the Secretary of State has recently repeated the principles on which this Government is to be conducted, I do not think the Governor
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period, but I would publish

Ordinance in Draft, and

every

invite deliberate Comment on it

before passing _ In Ordinary cases

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would suffice for

fortnight is

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or say a month - while in graver I would give three months ov even more if necesorry-but this is a matter that should

be left entirely with the Governor who would limit or extend.

the period pro

re nata.

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are

get, or when the pumpose of

likely to get Ands

the

Ordinance is unobjectionable,

what possible end is answered

by delaying its operation

?

The last resolution refers

to the Establishment of a Colonial

Committee, and, on the understanding that the Committee was to its assistance to the Government;

give

I would hail the proposal with

satisfaction _ But as the Sicutan Sentan of State has recently repeated the principles

on which this cr

Government is to be conducted, I do not think the Governor

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