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done so was Mr. Hyniman who had, however, been absent from the duties of his office since 3 o'clock P.M. on the 3rd Instant when taken ill he had to go home, since which he has not returned to the Treasury, consequently I have no hesitation in disbelieving Mr. Panicefote's assertions being far from ... they relate to "threats need" relying "relying however" he evidently did upon the imperfect statement of his Clerk: But I have very much to regret your letter of the 16th Instant you positively assert that "There is no reason to doubt" you do "doubt, Mr. Panicefote's statement that "the money was offered at the Treasury on the 3rd Instant" when there is not a single sentence, not a single word communication that can bear such an interpretation. Indeed let me draw your attention to the second paragraph of my letter and will it not convey inferentially to your mind the admission that a Clerk did call to pay Mr. Panicefote's Rate, but that it may be that he mismiiderstood what might in substance have been said to him, i.e., that the gathering of the Tax of August had passed unpaid on the 31st, from the Treasury to the Court of Summary Jurisdiction to whom an application had been made for a warrant to recover the amount overdue.
As to my statement that I had no doubt that the occupant of Lot No. 145 "was and is included in the List submitted on the 3rd Instant to the Court" I conceived in that case I had no doubt in my mind upon the matter that in the absence of Mr. Hynoman, my only reliable authority in such cases, it would not have been mise...