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The Governor General having every desire to comply with the wishes of the Assembly, will direct, that for the future, the Speaker shall be consulted with regard to the appointment of all tha Officers of that House. Government House, 1st February, i860.

Enclosure 2 in No. 18. COLONIAL SECRETARY TO CLERK OF LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLT. Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, November 4th, !856. Sia, — With reference to my letter of the 25th August last, No. 123, to the Honorable tha Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, stating that the Governor-General and the Executive Council had been'pleased to order that all appointments of authorised Messengers, Office Keepers, Watchmen, and other persons of the laboring classes in the Department of the Assembly should be vested in the Speaker,—I am now directed to inform you that this authority has been rescinded, and an order made that all appointments of Messengers, Office Keepers, Watchmen, and other persons of the laboring classes in the department, shall be agaiu vested in the Clerk of the Assembly. I have, &c, The Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, W. EltarD.

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