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branch

by

the increase in the

number

of

Ordinances passed

during the last ten years as

compared with the previous corresponding Period. Thus the.

number

of

Ordinances passed

between the 31th of March 1850.

and the 31" of March 1860. (when the revision

of

the bivil dist

took place ) amounts only to 79,

while the number passed

between the 31th of March 1860.

and the 34th

March

of 1870, amounts to. 130; and I may mention that since 1866, although absent on

sick Leave

414

for fifteen months, &

myself prepared

50 of them.

no less than

Smeed scarcely remark

that the labor, and responsibili.

ty of Drafting these Ordinances, and of altering revising, and amending them while being discussed, and passed by the Tegislative bouncil is of itself

very considerable; but the he. - cords of your office

can testify

to the vast number of Legal

i

opinions

on every

branch

of the

EX

Law which I have been called