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certain Police and
Lighting Rates should
be paid at this Treasury. that such error is greatly to be deplored I admit and unequivocally regret it as
having led to a correspondence which otherwise
might have been avoided. therefore I have
nothing to say in
in palliation of a clerical mistake for which I am solely responsible. But considering the intrinsic phases of the case I am at a loss to conceive how it is that the Acting Colonial Secretary's letter of the 16th of October
No 1240 should attribute to me expressions and sentiments which it is impossible to trace in the 13th October No 55 and
my
far
I disconnect
cover
by
letter of
less can
what principle of rectitude
my veracity could have been brought
into doubt as is now
substantially the
case in the letter I have cited No 1240 -
The
Acting
The letter No 1240 from Colonial Secretary's Office called in my-
opinion
No reparation
opinion for an indignant refutation of
the matters laid to
my charge and this of the only charge. I endeavoured to convey in terms that
made; viz:-,
neglect of duty should not
on more than
by any possibility afford
as the
any ground of displeasure, but reply No 1981 to my plea of not guilty for from making allowances for the position in which I had been thrown
Mr Forth has gone so far as to accuse me of persistently
"misunderstanding" the letter addressed the 18th No 1240 and further
on one occasion
A
entered into
Correspondence
to me on
which this Department threatens
ment which it
me in unmistakable terms
was necessary with the consequences of
close,
to bring to a
imply from the apparent impossibility of making
course it is-
I
some improper
by anticipation apprehended
him understand may be betrayed the subject. I had on
into and this
after the 17th Instant to Mr. Mercer
and in presence of the Acting Colonial Secretary pledged my word as a gentleman and a Public Officer that I had, notwithstanding the involuntary
error
fallen into by my Department, done truly and conscientiously all that
rested