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"Without Knowing
Sir Percules,
I venture to assert that with an
"equally practical Knowledge
of his marits he will be
conscientions
"Mr. Mercer
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advocate of as Sir George Braham
"I Know that the archives. " and correspondence of the Colony "will plead us less strongly
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"M. Mercer's favor.
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fishing village has in 2, years " become a great commercial "Emporium lighted with gas a distance of ten thousand miles
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"paying its civil charges, Mr. Mercer "has during the whole
the whole of that period
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cause in the
"highest executive and legislative
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positions.
These combined circumstances
"will, I trust, serve
as an
ex cine
"for the intrusion on your official
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Sir
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(Signed) J. F. Davis"
Acknowledgment of the above.
" Colonial Office, 14 February, 1865-
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