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Treasury
on the 3rd Instant those
letter of
the
You inform me that the Excellency finds it impossible to understand my first explanation and I have to state that I construed Mr Panncefore's letter as
me
name
charging although I was not indicated by
by the Office I hold with having need threats to him through the medium of his clerks. I have no
copy of Mr Panncefore's letter before
it can
my
bear
letter
of
no
me but I believe
other construction and in
the 13th I wished to
Convey
me
that "the threats" "could not by any possibility have emanated from" as I knew nothing of Mr Panncefore's letter to the Treasury till you informed me of it by sending me a copy.
on
I never wrote or said anything that could be construed into a belief on my part that Mr Panncefore had asserted, offered at the Treasury rates which he should have paid before the last in August, but I shall day be equally frank in my avowal that I did not believe in the correctness of Mr Panncefore's letter when upon the authority of his clerk he asserted that he had been at the Treasury threatened with legal Proceedings,
the first place because I never did so otherwise than by notice served upon him, secondly because I had before the 3rd Instant obtained that process pointed out in the 16th Clause of Ordinance No.5 of 1863 as in all cases of dilatory or punctual payments, and my remedy
or
thirdly because if any threats could by any possibility have been held out indirectly to Mr Panncefore the only person who in my absence could have done so was H
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