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supplies ordinarily granted for the maintenance of the public service ”until the Government of the Island shall be remodeled so as to enjoy the confidence of the people :” and that “the moneys which shall in future be taken from the people shall be expended judiciously and for their benefit,——-—or in other words, until the people of this colony obtain what is usually termed Responsible Government." '

The resolutions of the Assembly, here set forth in part, were followed by the passage, on the 25rd of March, of an address to the Queen. In the address there were re-stated the principal reasons why supplies for the public service had been refused. It was further stated that the people’s representatives in the Legislature had no confidence in Her Majesty’s Executive Council” because that Executive Council is composed of gentlemen whose political principles are believed to be inimical to the advancement of the Island's prosperity; because several departments of Govern- ment under their control have in several instances been grossly mismanaged; because it has been their policy to prepetuate a system of favoritism by dispensing the patronage of the Crown among their own immediate dependents and relatives to the manifest dissatisfaction of the great majority of Your Majestry’s subjects in this colony; because offices of emolument have been sold under the irresponsible system of Government which it has been the policy of the Executive Council to prepetuate; because the revenues Of the Colony have not been judiciously expended in developing its resources and encouraging industry; but rather too often squandered in speculation and extravagance; because the country has lost large sums of money arising from the operation of “An Act to regulate the laying out and altering of highways in consequence of the Executive Government not putting the provisions of the said Act in force; because there are still large sums of money due the country since 1834, and although the House of Assembly has repeatedly prayed the Executive to put the law in force against proprietors and others owing such sums, yet the House of Assembly dispairs of ever getting such sums paid under the present system of Government.”

For these and other reasons set forth the House of Assembly

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