CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3] — Page 78

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guide the practice of debate, experience

points of order is almost entirely wanting. It is intolerable, in such circumstances, that members of the bouncil, who

are ready to obey the

ruling of the chair, should be ex- posed to ensure advertent errors on

and

when

for necessarily in.

points of order,

if. calling to order, the President is to adopt a tone and a

manner, unusual in similar as- semblies, and not in accordance

with the practice of countery ob-

served a

may

imong gentlemen, there is nothing but the degree of forbearance which members of bouncil think it right to exent, out of their regard for the character of the Body, to which they belong, to prevent them from delivering replies in an offensive way, of the proceedings being injuriously affected.

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good order

I have hitherto refrained,

unnicu

for the purpose of avoiding sary notoriety, from giving pub- licity to the papers connected with the subject matter of the most un

pleasant