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series, called for by,
and initiative of,
new and improved system of. Rate collection.
It is not sufficient for you
to
that
Day
the insertion in pencil is irregular, and
of a Subordinate; it was
the clerical error your duty to see that occurred, and had signed the paper
have been some
the
wrong
you
no such irregularity
not most improperly blank, there would possibility at least that
date and the irregular pencil insertion might have been avoided.
On
Your
Postscript I am to remark:
that nothing in clause XIX
of the
Ordinance exonerates the Colonial Treasurer
from a proper discharge of his duties.- Unpleasant as it is to make these strictures, they are unfortunately necessary by the time of your
the matter is now assuming
rendered
letter and
a
very
serious appearance, for, as this letter
is in course
of draft
a letter is
received from the Acting Judge of the Summary Jurisdiction Court, who
forwards
one
of your notices, points out
its irregularity,
and reports the impossibility of issuing upon it those
very
warrants which
you yourself
represented as having been issued
the present instant.
the notice is signed by
you and
on
similar in its informalities to that already brought to
your attention. It would appear that all the notices are thus defective.
This Excellency the Acting Governor will be glad if you can
means
but
suggest any remedy for this error, which, at the discretion of Mr
while, the
for Acting Judge, would inevitably have caused much confusion and may even
now do so
with loss in addition, unless
promptly
received