Thus, as the Governor-General has stated, Mr.
Millett and myself have, during a considerable time, constituted the whole effective strength of the Commission.

Nor has Mr.Millett been able to devote to the business of the Commission his whole undivided attention.
"I must say that, even if no allowance be made for the untoward occurrences which have retarded our progress, that progress cannot be called slow.

People who have never considered the importance and difficulty of the task in which we are employed are surprised to find that a Code cannot be spoken of extempore, or written like an article in a magazine.

I am not ashamed to acknowledge that there are several chapters in the Code on which I have been employed for months; of which I have changed the whole plan ten or twelve times; which contain not a single word as it originally stood; and with which I am still very far indeed from being satisfied.

I certainly shall not hurry on my share of the work to gratify the childish impatience of the ignorant.