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to the position at the time I rose to speak as to the occasion which gave origin to it at the previous muting.
My intention was, with
reference to the language of
addressed to me from the chair,
on
the 7th February, and to the tone and manner in which that censure, as
well as
subsequent rulings
points of order, were conveyed, to pro- test against a similar bearing,
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the part of His Excellency towards members of the bouncil in future, and to move, if necessary,
if necessary, the following resolution, viz. "That language of "cinsure applied by the chair to "members of this bouncil, for nors, in point of order, committed by "inadvertence, is a breach of the privi leges of the bouncil, and caluslaked "to compromise the good order and " character of its procedings."
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Your Lordship is prob- aware that the Standing Orders, for the procedure of the Legislative Council in this Colony, admit of the widest interpretation, and, as there have been for precedents to
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