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(CIRCULAR COPY.)
Downing-street, May 20th, 1882.
SIR,-Gr<-at inconvenience having been found q
to arise t His Majesty's Government as well as to
the parties interested, by individuals in the colony p m
of Van Diemen's land transmitting complaints to his
the colonial department at home without a previous
roniiiiimicnlioii with the local authorities, whereby ' a
winch delay has interposed in consequence of the i
references which it is necessary to make to your
Government for explanation previous to any delay
prison being held on the subject of such complaints, j 25
I have to desire you will cause public notice to be ! j
given, that the Secretary of State carun t send any ! It
satisfactory or conclusive answers to any enemy- in
nications which may be addressed to Dilli unless such a
communications are made known to the Government ! at
the first instance, in order that he may be enabled to 1 a
writer inch explanations as the case may admit. ' j w
In all cases where this regulation has not been St
complied with, there will be no other alternative,
but to send such communications back to the colony with
a view to the Governor having an opportunity as
of report ling upon them, until he has done which, is
the answers must be postponed. I
In promulgating this regulation to the inhabitants |
j as will, however, explain to them that it is by -
no means intended (0 debar any person from sending |
any complaints he may think proper direct to the Ii
Secretary of State, had to apprize the inhabitants of the
course which and complaints must take before C
an answer can be given ; still less will there be any I
objection to their apprising the Secretary of State |
of any communicate us which they may have pre- "
sented to the Governor for the purpose of being
transmitted d home, or to their forwarding duplicates ii
of them to the Secretary of State the object of this h
instruction being that in any complaints which may | "
be preferred against the measures of your Government,"
His Majesty's Ministers may have before I
then), at the same time, any explanations which the
Governor may have to offer on the several points to
which their complaints may refer. I !
I have the honour to he Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant, I
BATHURST.
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