CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6] — Page 194

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my

arrangements for it's good conduct,

attempt to have an independent squation would ind in failure. Ite considered however,

that the two propositions I had

submitted him

were,

under the

A

being

circumstances, highly feasible, and of the live, he preferred pecuniary contribution as "the simplest and most effective. be stated that official changes taking place in the

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personnel and that

of

the Government,

the new Governon f

that, on the

of

he would

the Province taking office, confer with him on the subject, explaining that as the Revenne

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was under the direction

Officer,

his

scheme

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that

any

Concurrence in

its application

absolutely necessary.

As

was

regards the legislation propored, the Viceroy thought that

the

such would be in advance of times, and applicable only to a

state

of security on the Const that could not for some period

To adopt

a

possibly exist. measure of that kind would entail a quarantee of protection to honest traders that certainly he was not prepared to give. Pre time might arrive when the

the Sea Coast would

Police

of

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