Command I beg respectfully to be_-_ allowed to decline attending the Meeting " the houses to state to your Excellency the Council for the reasons I had
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Major General Commanding
True abstract and copies
Bet Clerk of Councils
20/2775.
Government House
197
Houghing 24th February 1875
My dear General Cottorne
dated 22
I have received nd Lebruary
your letter
ry, declining attend a meeting of the Exécutive Council for reaton's you to me on a former occasion.
had thated
May I ask whether I am to understand your letter as declining to attend and or all picture meetings. of the council, of which you are by the Royal Instructions appointed
Senior Member?
If this be so, I think it will be. decilable for you to specify the reason, to which you allude as
Raving been communicated to me (verbally) in order to prevent the possibility of my misstating them, when inforting, Sher Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, (as I must do with the view to the appointment of an additional Member of the Executive Council.
Believe me-
faithfully yours ((Signed) CA. 6. Kennedy
Conduire Muskie.
Monial Secretary.
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