CO129-153 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [11-12] — Page 146

2.

Upon the second reading, this Ordinance was referred to a select Committee, cousisting of three Official and three non Official Members of Council: at which the Company

represented by Counsel,

and sweral witnesses examined, and

I think I may say, judging from

what then occurred, that the general opinion prevailing in this Colony is favorable to the execution of the words. The Special Report of such Committee, and from which

one Member difsented, will

only

probably accompany

க.

This report.

I should add that the

general rights of Navigation formið

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the subject of much consideration both at the Committee and at the

Legislative Council, and that the

arrangements which have been made between the Company and the Excutive

on

this

point

unminently satisfactory,

At the

4.

are

same time

if

solely

with

the matter had rested

I should have been of opinion

that this Ordinance should have

been passed with a suspending claus, As however the general opinion of the Conneil when taxen in

connexion with the circumstances

to which I referred in paragraph 1 of this report,

was adverse i

CC.