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Enclosure H.

the Standing Orders.

I have the honour to send you herewith 16 copies Draft Bill.

No trust, the Government will not

shrink from favouring us and have

Afc Bill passed in the Council at

au earliest Convenience, in-

awkward

Consideration of the very position, in which we have been

: ploved without any fault of ours, by sence doubts raised for the first time after 39 year of

of our being in

- possession of the Inland for 50, to whether

we are entitled to reortgage and sell: the said land and premises, of which.

cubarassment we

gave

notice to the

bennent by our totter of the 28th February last.

I have

(Signed) John T. Ranuendi

Bishop Vicar Apatolie.

Copy

Report by the Attorney-General.

The

application of Bishop Raimondi contained in his 6 first letter ofFebruary

27. 1884 was to grant no such incorporation

"as was

granted in Trinidad to the

" Archbishop of Port Louis by Ordinance 703.16 of 1870-

or as this will take

"Considerable time to introduce and.

the

" paso a special Ordinance reciting the " circumstances especially authorizing "sate of Lot 7:50:"

Upon this the Bishop was requested to furnish a copy of the Frividad Ordinance to which he referred and also the Crown Lecise of L1 50, No copy of the

copy of the Ordinance

could be obtained. The Crown Lease.

AAHUS

furnished and proved to be for 75- years from

1845 to the Sacred

Congregation

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