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has reference to Letters Pateur under the Greas Ecal, which I need not

not the case with

regard

Day is ~ to Letters issued

under the Colonial Ordinance. Moreover

Ordinance No 14 of 18ts is limited to Patents for Inventions whereas the Act Letters Palent

ambraces wiction its

generally.

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If the only reason for Ihr Emalis advising the then Acting Governor to [deloy the proclamation of the Air be the one contained in the concludiing paragraph of the communication addressa by him to

yourself

on the 4th day of December 1863, I

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of quinion that

insufficient. One of live things by the Secretary of States direction were

to have been dene, the Act was to have?

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been "forshurik proclaimed or a

furnished upon

the

Qubject,

ov a resort report

but it could

hardly have been urged by Mit Smals

that the probability of Sir Hercules Robinson having had some communication wich the Colonial Office on the subjeer of Patents could form the subjcer of a Report from

the Office Administering the Gevernment,

and curtainly could not operate

excuse

for

as

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we avish an express

compliance

direction proceeding from the stead of that

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Office. I therefore chinse the Act should have been "forchurch proclaimed. As however that has not been done, I

have no hesitation whation in now

commending

that the same be proclaimed

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