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here at the expiration of his

leave under the impression

above alluded to, I should be

glad to be informed, in time, whether love Lordship supports

my reading of

the documents

above described, under which,

I hold, that the Colonial.

Secretary having been absent when the Commission of 1884

" took effect" I thereby

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became

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the "person appointed by Majesty to administer the

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Government during oster Majesty's

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pleasure

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"plenure and that, except by

a special notification of eter

Majesty's pleasure to the

I have - pending

contrary,

the

schern of Sir G. W. Des Weny the arrival of his successor.

right, under that Commission, to retain the Office notwithstand.

ing

the return of the Colonial Secretary

to the Colony.

I venture to think

that not only

is this the correct

legal interpretation of Clause XVI of the Letters Patent and

Clause