with which I am personally
acquainted.
to be founded
& nevertheles professes
on the Secretary of
of
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such bath
by Statute in lien of Allegiance
appears from that
despatch that in some Colonies
the 20th
5.
&
State's incular despatch of May 1857, addressed to the
Governors of
2.
all Colonies.
The Circular despatch in question, as it's tenor implies,
an abuse
was directed against which had grown up under the general power given to Governors of administering the bath Allegiance not merely to all Office-holders, but to all visitors
and residents in a
where
any
of
Colony-save
other oath was
was prescribed
a
usage
had
grown up
to
Administer to Office- holders not only the oath of allegiance: -but also those and Supremacy, Ho.
4.
of Abjuration
HC.
For this reason the
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Despatch goes on to say that the Attorney General had advised in future that Governors should not tender to Office- holders
others
any
outh but the rathe
f
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