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Department confesses
its error in
over-ruting
-ruting the opcision
paviously over of the Attorney - General
of this
Colony (Mr O'Malley), and now
admit that he was,
his view
· right in
respecting certain legal
points connected with the
important subject of the proper constitution of the Legislative
Council in this Colony.
2.
I have in due course
Communicated the despatch under
it to the Executive
acknowledgment
Concil, which concurs with we
in the suggestion which I
ventured
Gor 1869
ventured to make in
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despatch
of the 5th May ultimes, to
the effect that it might be well
that decisions over.
over r
the
ructing them legal points of Law Officers of the Crown in the
opinions
Colonies should be made on
the advice of the Law Officers of
the Crown in England and not
on
merely the advice of the Colonial of the Colonial Department in Doroning Street,
for, with all due respect for that Departruent, the opinion of the Low Officers of necessarily carry far
the Crown would
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