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Description:Excerpt from Answer to an Address: Of the Honourable Legislative Council to His Excellency the Governor, Dated 21st April, 1856, for Documents Relative to the Question of a Separate Government for the Eastern Districts of the Cape Colony My Lord, - In having the honour to transmit herewith a duplicate of my despatch of the 19th instant (sent by Lieut. Beresford), I request permission to offer to your Lordships attention a few observations upon a subject which, as I think, is of great importance to the future good government of this colony. The seat of the Colonial Government, Cape Town, is, without doubt, ill-placed with relation to the present extent and local circumstances of the colony. At the very extremity of the peninsula which forms it, Cape Town is too far from its central, northern, and, above all, its eastern provinces, even without the late addition of that of Queen Adelaide. This was not the case in the original extept of the colonial territory; but it certainly is so now, and it sometimes occasions great inconvenience and embarrassment to the public service. It is 300 miles from the district town of the province of George; 600 from that of Uijenhage; 700 from those of Graaff-Reinet, and of Albany and Somerset; great part of these communications, too, by very bad roads. If the lately acquired province be retained, the distance to King Williams Town will be about 80 mes farther, 780. At such distances respectively, there are many references to the Governor, of which the decisions are unavoidably retarded, to the inconvenience of the parties; many hings requiring his more frequent personal superintendence than it is now possible for him to afford it, without neglecting other duties: and the provinces wlier; that superintendence is most frequently requisite are at once the most distant aril the most valuable of the colony. The practcal result of all this has brought me to the conclusion that one of two remedies is absolutely necessary, and that even without considering the new province of Adlaide. One (and, in my opinion, the best) is the removal of the seat of government; the other, the appointment of a Lieutenant-Governor for the distant provinces. In the last of these, besides a great increase of expense by an additional establishment, which will be considerable, I foresee great collision and want of efficient co-operation and much resulting inconvenience to the public service. This, therefore, I cannot recommend; but I am of opinion that the first may be applied, with n)comparative difficulty in execution to its prospective advantages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Answer to an address of the Honourable Legislative Council to His Excellency the Governor, dated 21st April, 1856, for documents relative to the question of a separate government for the Eastern Distr. To get started finding Answer to an address of the Honourable Legislative Council to His Excellency the Governor, dated 21st April, 1856, for documents relative to the question of a separate government for the Eastern Distr, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Answer to an Address: Of the Honourable Legislative Council to His Excellency the Governor, Dated 21st April, 1856, for Documents Relative to the Question of a Separate Government for the Eastern Districts of the Cape Colony My Lord, - In having the honour to transmit herewith a duplicate of my despatch of the 19th instant (sent by Lieut. Beresford), I request permission to offer to your Lordships attention a few observations upon a subject which, as I think, is of great importance to the future good government of this colony. The seat of the Colonial Government, Cape Town, is, without doubt, ill-placed with relation to the present extent and local circumstances of the colony. At the very extremity of the peninsula which forms it, Cape Town is too far from its central, northern, and, above all, its eastern provinces, even without the late addition of that of Queen Adelaide. This was not the case in the original extept of the colonial territory; but it certainly is so now, and it sometimes occasions great inconvenience and embarrassment to the public service. It is 300 miles from the district town of the province of George; 600 from that of Uijenhage; 700 from those of Graaff-Reinet, and of Albany and Somerset; great part of these communications, too, by very bad roads. If the lately acquired province be retained, the distance to King Williams Town will be about 80 mes farther, 780. At such distances respectively, there are many references to the Governor, of which the decisions are unavoidably retarded, to the inconvenience of the parties; many hings requiring his more frequent personal superintendence than it is now possible for him to afford it, without neglecting other duties: and the provinces wlier; that superintendence is most frequently requisite are at once the most distant aril the most valuable of the colony. The practcal result of all this has brought me to the conclusion that one of two remedies is absolutely necessary, and that even without considering the new province of Adlaide. One (and, in my opinion, the best) is the removal of the seat of government; the other, the appointment of a Lieutenant-Governor for the distant provinces. In the last of these, besides a great increase of expense by an additional establishment, which will be considerable, I foresee great collision and want of efficient co-operation and much resulting inconvenience to the public service. This, therefore, I cannot recommend; but I am of opinion that the first may be applied, with n)comparative difficulty in execution to its prospective advantages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Answer to an address of the Honourable Legislative Council to His Excellency the Governor, dated 21st April, 1856, for documents relative to the question of a separate government for the Eastern Distr. To get started finding Answer to an address of the Honourable Legislative Council to His Excellency the Governor, dated 21st April, 1856, for documents relative to the question of a separate government for the Eastern Distr, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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