No. 28

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
copies of a Bill submitted to me by the Legislative Council of
this Colony in its recent Session, and reserved by me for Her
Majesty's consideration. It is entitled;
An Ordinance for the regulation of Banks.

I add the Report of the Attorney General.

2. I am not certain that our present Legislative Constitution
allows of the Executive assent being given to a Bill after the
prorogation of the Legislature; but the permission to reserve a
proposed measure for the consideration of the Secretary of State
is so convenient that I have supposed it to exist, and shall
embody it in the Standing Orders which I shall lay before the
Council at its next meeting. If I have assumed for the Governor
a power which he does not possess, the whole effect will be,
that a Bill of doubtful propriety will fall to the ground.

3. I regret, much, the delay which has occurred in forwarding
the enclosed documents, but I have recently been for upwards of two
months in the interior of the Country without the means of
communicating with you.