Louise
Admiralty
63
More or less were a single query; but the £14-17-6 was deducted by his direction, from my salary for the quarter ending December 1846, under the pretext of former correspondence. On my applying to the Treasurer, W. Mercer for a receipt specifying this refund, in which the item of overpayment might be detailed, this was refused, although the poorest person paying the smallest sum into the Treasury is entitled to one.
It is a grievous matter, but as the demands made upon me of this nature have been of frequent occurrence, and security for the future becomes necessary, and the above sums may again be called for, because I have nothing to prove the due payment thereof;
I have no alternative but to state that if there really existed an item of £19-17-6 unpaid, I am very sorry that two years and six months elapsed before I should have discharged a just debt. If, on the other hand, the accounts, entries, and receipts of the Treasury itself are correct, I beg you to submit my humble claim for a refund of £40-1 and £19-17-6 to the Lords of the Treasury through His Excellency the Governor, with a copy of the accompanying letter and certified enclosures, and I shall ever remain
Your humble obedient servant,
Charles Gutzlaff