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afterwards determined, with

sanction, to re-enact both Bills,

my

and to introduce the amendments

insisted

upon As I have said above, I announced

in the new measures.

that I must be fully satisfied, before giving my assent to these new Bills, that the formalities required by the Instructions and by the Standing Orders of the Legislative Council, have been scrupulously observed.

13.

Both Bills were

carefully considered, first by the

Lau

Enclosures land 2

Enclosures

3and 4

Law Committee, and afterwards by

the Committee of the whole Council;

and both were

finally passed by

the Colonial Legislature, nomine contradicente. I annex sopies of

the opinions of the Attorney-General on which I gave my assent to

...

these Bills; and also Certificates that

the formalities required by article 25 of the Instructions have been observed. As was said above, I am

assured that this is the first

occasion on

which

a

certificate of

this nature has been asked for by

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the