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this
was not personally liable to make good loss and that I had a good defence to any action that might be brought aganist me for the recovery of it
I do not
possess
the means however
expensive litigation
to enable me to enter on an
with the Government,
and I must therefore
submit to the demand and place myself
in the hands of Government to be dealt -
they may
with as under the peculiar circumstances of this case,
Since
my resignation of the office of Registrar General I have been unable to ~
deem right and proper-
or certain means of -
obtain amy
amy fixed Employment.. The small income I derive from my present calling is mat precarios and uncertain, and I only continue to pursue
it in the absence of better and more
employment.
Fo
pay
at once to large
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profitable
a sum as that
which the Government claims from me is
wholly out of my power, and I trust therefore
permitted
that I shall not be considered unreasonable in asking to be
to
pay the amount still claimed from me by instalments of #:50 Monthly, which is the largest sum I Couldin
tatie upon myself to name, my income
depending entirely upon the amount of
am able to obtain sturing the
employment
month.
J
I am
am induced to entertain the hope
that Government will not refuse to accord to me this indulgenes, as it haw, by my
resignation, which
ocenrred on
the fat Februar