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fins de non recevoir, neither the records in the Land Office
nor those
in the Treasury would have been searched. As it was, they were searched, _ "the former by the Surveyor General, the latter by the Celinial Treasurer, and my charge was,
was proved. Mr. Caldwell, hen ever, being previously warned of what was in a Memorandum ralf afterwards, which was read at the table by the Acting Colonial Secretary, and pronounced both by him and
Governor to be conclusive.
by
the
1 going
on, sent
an
hour
I denied it. It was but a simple assertion on Mr. Caldwell's part, that the entry of his name
name in the
two records was erroneous, and or.
.....
: eccusioned by another alleged mistake on the part of his Attorney
But, before
our next
next meeting
meeting (which
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was on the 14th instant ), H is Excellency had Mlained the signal reputation of this
even
defence,-
if so flimsy a thins had readed reputation. There was first the cvidence of the Treasury Clack, who shewed by
his books that the last
half year's gate of Crown. Rent for the brothel property was paid at the end of February last into the Treasury by Mr Caldwell in person, and that, at his request,
the
receipt. was made out in the
of a Chinaman. There was
name of a
next, the same
gentleman
the
n''d own
ба
me
books,
official extract prem shewing that there were ten mae lots of land in the brothels quarter,
more
for which Mr Caldwell had in like Manner paid the Crown Rents in propria persona, on the same day, taking receipts for Chinamon in
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