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 CHAPTER XV.

To carry into effect the changes suggested in the preceding chapters, as of indispensable necessity for ensuring the future efficiency of the transportation system in the Australian colonies, certain changes, I conceive, should also be effected forthwith in the constitution of the government of New South Wales. In the state of rapid extension and transition which that colony is now exhibiting, the affairs of its civil government, implying the furtherance and promotion of its general welfare and advancement as a British colony, would unquestionably require the undivided attention of any one individual. It is therefore highly ex-