Separate

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. 51, of the
25th of September last, submitting a difficulty with reference to the
eighth clause of The Queen's Instructions of the 11th of January last.

The Instruction is intended to render a Governor circumspect in his
proceedings by imposing upon him the necessity of consulting his
Council, and I am not aware that this necessity has been productive of
any inconvenience in other Colonies. It is, however, for you to judge
on your own responsibility what are the cases in which the advantage of
the Public Service requires him to act without consulting his Executive
Council, and that it is impossible for me, without reference to a
particular case, to say whether you will be right or wrong in giving a
large interpretation to your Instructions in this respect.