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otherwise would in all

probability, have soon become

inevitable.

4.

At the close of Your Lordships despatch, above – referred to, Your Lordship asks to be informed "whether a regular session (of the Legislative Council), is held from Cetober to May, as was "the practice when Sir George "Bowen was Governor," and also " whether the custom of calling "the Excentive Council together

Once

for 10813/83.

once a week is still maintained.". once. To both these questions my

reply is "No"?"

5. I regarded the approval

of Sir George Bowen's proposals

نا

on these points rather as a

permission of procedure,

which was in accord with

the

disposition of the existing Governor, than as implying an instruction to his successors, and it seemed to me that if the approval in question

question had been intended to imply,

on

th