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Mr Ackroyd.
When Sir John Pope Hennessy was Governor, the question of Sunday labour was again revived, and in a memorial which was presented to him on the subject it was stated that no new legislation was needed inasmuch as the Statute 29th of Charles the 2nd Chapter 7 was, in the opinion of the Memorialists, in force. This caused Sir John Hennessy to make enquiries as to the extent to which Sunday labour was carried on in the several departments, and I find it mentioned in a letter from M. Price, the Surveyor General, to the Acting Colonial Chaplain, dated the 11th of August, 1878, that His Excellency had given such instructions as he trusted would have the effect of putting a stop to all
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Mr Ackroyd.
When Sir John Pope
Avas
Governor, the
Hennessy question of Sunday
was
labour
again revived, and in
a memorial which was
presented to him
on
the
subject it was stated that
no new
legislation.
was
needed inasmuch as the Statute 29th of Charles the 2nd Chapter 7 was, in the
opinion
of the Memorialists, in
force
dir
caused
Sir John Hennessy
enquiries
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is to be made
of the several departments
as
to the extent to which
Sunday labour
labour was carried.
on in them, and I find it mentioned in a letter from M. Price, the Surveyor General; to the Acting Colonial Chaplain, dated the 11th of August, 1878, - that His Excellency had given
such instructions as he
trusted would have the
effect of putting a stop to
all
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