CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9] — Page 285

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gambling Licenses. Thus on one hand there was a rigid enforcement of the Ordinance's liabilities, and on the other, a partially meeting of circumstances, which had unexpectedly offered, and been taken away.

The only point of importance which Your Grace's above-mentioned despatches left unsettled was that affecting the Mint. This, however, was of such magnitude, that although it was my intention at first to have substituted fresh Estimates for those laid before Council, I feared they might be upset like their predecessors by despatches intimating either the abolition or suspension of minting operations here. I also confess frankly that as I could not have invited the Legislative Council to reconsider the Estimates without laying before it Your Grace's despatches, as my justification for such altered policy, I felt a great reluctance in the interest of Her Majesty's Government to take that step, because the most important points affirmed in those despatches are extremely vulnerable, as will presently appear, and also because in the existing very depressed condition of the Colony, I did not think it...

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gambling Licenses. Thus on one hand there was a rigid enforcement of the Ordinance's liabilities, and on the other, a partially meeting of circumstances, which had unexpectedly offered, and been taken away. The only point of importance which Your Grace's above-mentioned despatches left unsettled was that affecting the Mint. This, however, was of such magnitude, that although it was my intention at first to have substituted fresh Estimates for those laid before Council, I feared they might be upset like their predecessors by despatches intimating either the abolition or suspension of minting operations here. I also confess frankly that as I could not have invited the Legislative Council to reconsider the Estimates without laying before it Your Grace's despatches, as my justification for such altered policy, I felt a great reluctance in the interest of Her Majesty's Government to take that step, because the most important points affirmed in those despatches are extremely vulnerable, as will presently appear, and also because in the existing very depressed condition of the Colony, I did not think it...
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gambling Licenses. Thus on

hand there

cval

Avas

a rigid

The

enforcement of the Olary's liabilitie,

and

ow

chie ertien être

ve aNYO

of

partially meeting stree, which

vicmustances had unexpectedly

offered,

q

taken

away.

The only point of importance

which Your Grace's

You Grace's above mentioned

despatetres left unsettled

was

that

Y

affecting the Mint. This, however,

was

ore

of such magnitude, that

alihrough it

was

my

intention at

first to have substituted fresh

Estimates for those laid before Connait, I feared, they might be upset like their predecessors by function

227

desfiatches intimating either the

a abolition of minting

suspension

operations here. I also confefe frausely

that

as

I could not have invited

the Legislative Conneil to reconsider the Estimates without laying before

it Your Grace's despateties, as my

for such attired policy, I

Mason

felt a great reluctance in the interest of lin Majesty's Government to take that step, because the most important points afammed

one

of

in those despatcher is extremely vulnerable, will presently appear,

as

and also because in the existing

very depressed condition of the Colony, I did not thuise it

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