In this resolution the chamber took note of" the replies of the government, according to which the declarations contained in the letter of the 3rd of June do not constitute conditions but ` solemn recommendations,' while ` the convention of cession will have no other object than to effect the transference and define the measures for its accomplishment, and the Belgian legislature will regulate the regime of its colonial possessions in unrestricted liberty.'
The farmer replies, "You can't get there from here."
Many amusing stories are told of his replies to various deputations which waited upon him to ask for Grant's removal.
In the same year appeared Evanson's work entitled The Dissonance of the four generally received Evangelists, to which replies were published by Priestley and David Simpson (1793).
At the Post Office a record operator replies and takes particulars of the connexion, and these are entered upon a ticket.