CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 585

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in such an arre

arrangement

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that to which the letter related,

was intended merely as statement of the mode in which the arrangement affected the interests of the Department, and not as a waiver of any legal right, which the Post- master General or the Home

Government may have, tobe

Consulted in the matter.

The Postmaster General desires me to take this oppor-

tunity of again invitingford Derby's attention to the variation upon the point in question between the Ordinance nor

under consideration and that of 1876. The Ordinance of 1876 provides that the fovernor's power of fixing rates into tie subject to instructions from the Secretary of State or

the

Imperial

C

Imperial Postmaster General.

all that would seem

a

desirable, therefore, in regard to the present ordinance is that it should be couched in

the same terms.

I am

Lir.

Your obedient

Sa Blackwood

obedient servant,