be but just that where a charge is preferred against a Public officer conveying a doubt as to the correctness of his statements that a little more consideration should be manifested before so serious an attack is made upon the validity of his assertions; your presence but having already and in convinced the Acting Governor of your error,
I have no desire to add another word. I have already stated that as many as 247 notices were informal and irregular to "Date" where 2000 and upwards had been issued and I have now to add that $907.50 cents or 190 Rates had already been recovered by being paid into the Court of Summary Jurisdiction leaving a balance of 57 as to the date and for notices informal but which amended notices will be served tomorrow and on Wednesday.
The Acting Governor may rest assured that no trouble shall be personally spared by which I may guard against the possibility of any loss accruing to Government from the unaccountable error for which I am responsible.
Before I conclude this letter which has already considerably exceeded the limits I had proposed to myself I wish to refer to what passed in my interview with the Acting Governor and at which interview you were present on the 17th instant when I understood His Excellency to say that he believed that both difficulties and obstruction had been thrown in the way of the proper working of Ordinance No 5 of 1863, and I informed Mr Mercer that if by any possibility it were intended to apply those expressions to me individually or otherwise that I called upon him as the Acting Governor in the presence of the Acting Colonial Secretary, to afford me the satisfaction of proving my innocence of the charge and how grossly Mr Mercer had been ...