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By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. II.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 23, 1854. [No. 22
Colonial Secretary's Office. Auckland
18th August, 1854.
HIS Excellency the Officer Administering
the Government directs the publication,
for general information, of the following cor-
respondence which has passed between His
Excellency and the House of Representatives.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR.
Colonial Secretary.
To His Excellency the Officer administering the
Government of New Zealand.
May it please your Excellency,
We, the Commons of New Zealand, as-
sembled in the House of Representatives, beg
leave to acknowledge, with sentiments of deep
and sincere respect, your Excellency's very
important Message (No. 20) on the subject of
recent changes in the Executive Government,
and the relations between your Excellency
and the Legislature.
We can assure your Excellency of our ear-
nest desire to give the earliest consideration
to whatever matters may be submitted to us by
or on behalf of your Excellency: but in ap-
proaching the subject of the Message in ques-
tion, our attention has been, in the first instance,
directed to incidental matters, to which we
feel ourselves imperatively called on to advert.
The fact has been stated in this House by a
member in his place that the Message in
question has been presented to this House un-
der his advice, he not being a sworn member
of His Excellency's Executive Council,
The fact has also been stated in this house
by the same member in his place, that under
the present critical circumstances of the Co-
lony, and in reference to matters of the gravest
importance relating to the Executive Govern-
ment, your Excellency is acting under the sole
and exclusive advice of that member, without
and apart from those members of your Excel-
lency's Executive Council, who are sworn to
advise your Excellency rightly, and who alone
are responsible for the advice they may give.
The fact has also been stated in this house
by the same member in his place that in a po-
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NZ Gazette 1854, No 22
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🏛️ Publication of Correspondence on Executive Government Changes
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration18 August 1854
Correspondence, Executive Government, House of Representatives, Colonial Secretary
- ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary