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3. Though Your Lordship will be

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themselves tact and capacity of a high

order.

The Reclamation scheme

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Sanctioned, ( not to mention the other one

propoved of almost equal importance,

wrill

· and the impending great exchange. of property with the War Depertinent)

very largely add to the work and responsibility of the Colonial Secretary's Office, in view of the number and

intricacies of the interato involved, and

the delicate handling

whah

they

will

require in order to obviate much

complaint and dissatisfaction.

Though

able to

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ther from the above.

the

principal reasons for the appointinent

of a "string" Colonial secretary, is also another of scarcely

there

lens weight

in the present weakness of

Exccutive Council.

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Though, fortunately so it happens,

I never fear acting

· responsibility,

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on my

it is perhaps for that

that I should have at

-hand some one of anfficient strength :

or

of character to suggent obfection, improvements, to the course which

I contemplate, and Tam

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