CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7] — Page 87

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Legislative Conneil, I venture respectfully to remark that

one

reasons,

of the prinsipal which render expedient the

principle of a

a session with

it's correlative recess, does not exist here, Where a large

number

of the Legislators live at a distance from the seat of the Legislature, it is evidently "desirable that the business should be compressed into as short a time as practicable, in order that they may have

the

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the opportunity of spending reasonable portion of the year

at their homes. But here in

this

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a

very small Colony, where the distance of the residence

of

no member is s

sufficient to -prevent the whole "Council being ordinarily brought together

ether at an hour's notice, I cannot but think it best

in the public interest that

the

appointment of a meeting at any time should not be hampered by the interposition

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