No. 102

Referring to my Despatches named in the margin

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and the subject of the Crown Lands and Civil List of this Colony
I have now the honor to transmit copies of communications which have
passed between the Legislative Assembly and myself.

I do not expect that any satisfactory decision upon this question
will be come to by the present House of Assembly,

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who have not yet I think fully realized the injury and inconvenience
likely to result from the course they have adopted and which must I
think ere long work its own cure.

I will avail myself of this decision of the Assembly to put the
administration of the Crown Lands and Revenue on a sounder footing,
reporting from time to time what I have done or propose to do.

I will of course limit the charges against the Crown Fund to those
you have authorized and which there are ample funds to meet.

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The action of the Assembly will necessitate my addressing you I fear
at some length on the Crown Lands question which might have been
settled before I assumed the Government and which I found in a most
complicated position. I will if possible have the necessary
documents and information ready to transmit by the next Mail.