have the goodness to return the whole of the Papers
now
Serch.
I have te
(Signed) Richard Hootmani.
Memorandum.
It is utterly out of my power wither
to devote my own time and attention
to this complicated affair - Larkens to Gillespie - or to request the Honorable the Chief Magistrate to do so, when I am sensible that he is already
overburdened with the current duties of his Department. It is one
of those matters which must either be settled
by arbitration or must lie over until there is a regularly constituted Court
in
this
Colony.
In the mean
time
if the Honorable the Chief Magistrate will be so good
as to ascertain and
report
£62
report to Government the amount of Rent and by whom it is paid to Messrs Gillespie, I will issue an Official Injunction to the Payer to hold it in deposit or else to pay
else to pay it into the Public Treasury pending a legal decision. This step
may perhaps induce the Parties to prefer
an amicable settlement by arbitration to the delay that must ensue and a proposal to that effect will be made to them as soon as I
hear from the Honorable the Chief Magistrate.
(Signed) Henry Pottinger
Government House, Victoria,
February 16th 1846
Lieut.: Pedder, R. N.
Marine Magistrate.
Victoria