LETTERS TO ADMIRAL MORESBY. 229 
regulations, signed and dated by the Magistrates 
and Councillors, specifying that they are those 
now in force, and witnessed by your Pastor, the 
Magistrates, and Councillors ; and that you 
should refrain from bartering away your provi- 
sions before a sufficient store is in hand for 
future wants. 
" I must leave you on Thursday. You need 
not hurry over your consideration of my propo- 
sitions. Send the result of your meeting to me 
by the first opportunity. 
"May God bless you ! " 
It is, perhaps, scarcely necessary to add that 
the words of so kind a benefactor were received 
and treasured up with respect and gratitude. 
These feelings are best expressed by themselves 
in a letter to the Admiral. 
"PITCAIRN'S ISLAND, 18^ May, 1853. 
" HONOURED SIR, 
" We, the undersigned Magistrates and Coun- 
cillors of Pitcairn's Island, having, according 
to your request, convened a public meeting 
of the inhabitants of this island, have the 
satisfaction to inform you that, as regards your 
wise proposition for the amendment of certain 
laws relative to the duties of the Chief Magis- 
trate, the age at which he and his councillors 
are eligible to hold such offices, &c. &c., we, 
together with the rest of the community, do 
unanimously and fully acquiesce in your opinion, 
and will lose no time in attending to all your 
kind suggestions. 
" As regards the necessity of removing to 
