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adopted in introducing and paoning it through Council. Absolutely no time was given for couidration of discivion. It is an expression of tate will of cave Governor, and not of the opinion of the Council, and on constitutional grounds the undersigned most carnostly boy of your Lordship to disallow it, and if you think it right, to have it introdussed and considered again in proper forms.
His Excellency the Governor in addressing this Council on the first roading is reported to have
Said.
"would have no
Jam unable today to launch into the subject but "I may just say the ventilation this subject has "received during the last few years has led me "to the conviction that a measure of this kind
appreciable effect on this trade of "the port. Consequently I have felt that I should "before I leave remove au injustice towards a "deserving class of men. I trust I shall be able
6 go through this draft, and it will be published "in the Gazette on Saturday."
On moving the second reading fis- Excellency is reported to have said.
that
Elly desire is that having promised shortly after "my return to the Colony to a
gentleman largely "concerned in this matter that I would do my "best before my departure to do what I considered " an act of justice I felt bound, so long as the "cbjections were not insuperable, to perform "promise to the atmost, and not to go away "untit I had done so. I think very possibly "experience may Show the necessity of amend - "-ment but I do think it would be a graceful "act on the part of this Council now that it "las bocono clear thai no serious harm will
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