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Though myself strongly in favour of placing, at the proper time and in an appropriate manner, legislative restrictions upon the general use of the emblem and name, I can hardly think the Bill now before Parliament to be well adapted for its purpose.
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Thomas Erskine Holland

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Holland expresses his concerns about a specific Bill regarding legislative restrictions on the use of an emblem.

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