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5.-That the policy of disestablishment, still far from being generally accepted at home, has been, as far as the information of this Council goes, distasteful to every Colony on which it has been imposed; that it has been reversed in two Colonies, and in at least one more continues to be an offence and a public grievance to the Community.
6.—That a doubtful policy of this kind should not be, in ignorance of many of the essential circumstances of the case, needlessly forced upon an unwilling community which, administering its own revenue, is more interested in guarding against the misappropriation of that revenue than any external authority can be.
BILLS READ A SECOND TIME.--On the motion of the Acting Attorney General, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the following Bills were read a second time:-
(a.) A Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Vagrants.
(b.) A Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Law as to Sales of Land by Public Auction.
(c) A Bill entitled An Ordinance for the Relief of Widows and Children of Intestates where
the personal estate is of small value.
The Acting Attorney General gave notice that at the next meeting of Council he would move that the Council go into Committee on these Bills.
POSTPONEMENT OF THE OTHER ORDERS OF THE DAY.-The Acting Attorney General moved that the other Orders of the Day be postponed.
ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned to Wednesday, the 24th instant, at 4 P.M.
Read and confirmed, this 24th day of March, 1886.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
W. H. MARSH, Administering the Government.
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