Colonial Despatches

Despatch from London.

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Buckingham conveys Her Majesty's gracious Confirmation and Allowance of the Ordinance…entitled An Ordinance to Assimilate and amend the Law prohibiting the sale or gift of intoxicatingLiquors to the Indians.