Confidential

The great importance of Your Despatch No. 13 of 3rd
March, on the subject of the dissolution of the late Council
induced me to answer it at once, without, I fear, the full
consideration it deserved, and without once more taking the
opinion of my legal adviser on the subject.

2. I have now the honor to forward the legal opinion of
my Attorney General respecting the doubts expressed in your
Despatch. I sincerely trust that it is a correct one. Should
you however still think it necessary that the present Council
be reappointed and an Ordinance ratifying their former proceedings
passed, I will of course obey your commands.