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forms which

of the forms

attaches to the

usage

opening

and

closing of regular sessions,

and which Sir G. Bowen

introduced

for

the first-

time into this Colony. And

Colony.

this altogether apart from the

question whether such forms which are appropriate enough

large e

in

communities are not

more calculated to excite.

ridicule, than to induce -respect, in connection with

a

Legislature composed of

only

87

only ten members. Without entering into particulars, which would necessarily appear come what invidious, with reference to proceedings initiated by my predecessor, I nevertheless deem it my duty to express the opinion, that the only good object. -effected by a regular session

would be equally well attained without it, if the Governor,

onee a

year, (probably the

introduction of the Estimates

would