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I have received your Lordship's instructions, and I therefore hope that the matter is of considerable importance that I may be favoured with an early reply.

I have the honour to be, Your Lordship's, Most Obedient Servant;

As I would have been very unwilling in any case to have proclaimed an Ordinance of so peculiar a nature without previous sanction. I have considered that in transmitting it in its present form I practically lose no time for if an alteration be required and the extent of alteration be known it will only require a few days after the receipt of the necessary information to pass the Ordinance in an amended form.

This is the course which I mean to pursue when I shall read a third time the Bill which has been passed by the Legislature but will not be proclaimed for the present time, but with the principal difficulty having been the creation of such a Court.

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The Piracy Ordinance has been passed by the Legislature, the difficulty has been the creation of such a Court.

R. F. MartinDonnell, Aeria, I send the draft Bill to be able to ... Whether it should be band...

Copy of draft letter...

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I have received your Lordship's instructions, and I therefore hope that the matter is of considerable importance that I may be favoured with an early reply. I have the honour to be, Your Lordship's, Most Obedient Servant; As I would have been very unwilling in any case to have proclaimed an Ordinance of so peculiar a nature without previous sanction. I have considered that in transmitting it in its present form I practically lose no time for if an alteration be required and the extent of alteration be known it will only require a few days after the receipt of the necessary information to pass the Ordinance in an amended form. This is the course which I mean to pursue when I shall read a third time the Bill which has been passed by the Legislature but will not be proclaimed for the present time, but with the principal difficulty having been the creation of such a Court. ... Page 506 appears to be part of a larger correspondence. The text is fragmented, and some parts may be missing. Page 507 The Piracy Ordinance has been passed by the Legislature, the difficulty has been the creation of such a Court. R. F. MartinDonnell, Aeria, I send the draft Bill to be able to ... Whether it should be band... Copy of draft letter... 26. Page 7
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have received your Lordships

506

instinctions, and I therefore hope

the matter is of considerable

importance that I

favoured with an

may

be

early reply.

I have the how to be,

Your Lordship's,

Most Obedient Servant;

7

As I would have been

very

unwilling in any case to have

proclaimed

an Ordinance of

Lo

as

peculiar a nature without previous sauction. I have considered

that in transmitting it in it's

present form I practically love Ino time for if

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an

alteration be

of

that

required and the extent

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require a

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few days after the receipt

the necessary information to pass the Ordinance in an amended

form.

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read a third Si

which has been

not be proclamide

for reasons

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The Piracy

Cronance

time, but wit

The principal

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Create such

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I tend the put stik s

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hot the compimid.

Raspore

Jannen a

seast fe

Gor

should be band (9 tinte).

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