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In arriving at this conclusion, it may perhaps be considered that I was merely acting in the exercise of my fiduciary relation to the Lords Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury by pointing out to the Major General that an undue appearance of prosperity to the Colonial revenue might operate injuriously upon Home interests; but the superaddition of my remark illustrative of this assumption would seem upon mature deliberation to have been too broadly expressed, indeed better omitted altogether.
The contemplation of "passive resistance" was not to the law itself but to what I conceived would have been a misapplication of it if I had been forced into the position of a common defaulter.
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after the failure of every effort to be relieved from personal liability. It is an alternative which, I believe, a private individual would be justified in adopting under similar circumstances, but which required the Major General's sanction before it could be extended to my case, as no authority exists by which I could charge the amounts of the levy in my public accounts.
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If it had been stated that an official representation to His Excellency would have been attended with the desired effect of suspending the operation of the Act until a reference could be made to the Authorities at Home, I would gladly have availed myself of this mode of proceeding. But I regarded the whole affair as strictly
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