provisionally filling the

situation was

in receipt

of full Salary, and

that there was

therefore no

no means of

paying him / D. Morrison/ the moiety promised

him.

Lord Grey

that the

Considering

officer whom he had appointed had a positive claim to half Salary from the date of

embarkation, instructed the Governor to recover repayment from W: Young observing that two Officers could not draw the same

at

Salary

the same time. It

appears

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appears, however, from the accompanying recent Despatch from Governor Bonham, that W. Young declines to refund

the sum demanded

of him,

and

Lord

Grey thinks that the engagement made with him by Sir John Davis will, in point of fact, render it impossible

to recover the money

at all from W. Young.

Under these circumstances

Lord Grey

is constrained

to admit that a

double payment must in this instance be

made

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