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contitute the Colonial Governments, three only excepted

To what then does this charge amount? Do they mean that his Majety is cautious in giving his royal confirmation to Acts of the Colonial Aemblies? That he takes time to revie them? that he waits till experience has proved them ueful, before he gives them permanence and tability? It was one of the ends for which this power was reerved to the Crown.

Do they mean, that he has actually diallowed uch Acts as to his judgment appeared unfit to be allowed? That is the other end for which the power of diallowance was veiled in the Crown. Do they complain of the exercie of this power? They complain then, that they are not independent. To have an uncontrolled power of legtilation, is to be independent.

He has forbidden his Governor to pas laws of immediate and preing importance, unles upended in their operation till his aent hould be obtained; and when o upended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. ANSWER.