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salaries as retiring allow- 

 ances, leaving the poli- 

 ticians a clear field for 

 their exercise of " Minis- 

 terial responsibility." 

 The third Ministry, 

 known as the " Stafford," 

 held office for more than 

 five years, and left a 

 permanent influence on 

 the future history of the 

 colony. The Assembly, 

 on its first meeting in 

 1854, soon made manifest the fact that the politicians were divided into two parties, 

 called the " Centralists " and the " Provincialists ;" or those who wished the General Assembly 



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