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I have hitherto found Mr Forth a very painstaking and anxious Public Servant and I believe he has the interests of the Colony at heart, though he often exhibits great want of judgment.
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The inexcusable character of that general negligence is more obvious from the fact that without ... it is true my Administration as ... not cover many months - still it is my duty to speak of his conduct.
Forth in such terms as to merit any emendation. An Ordinance formerly declared insufficient is now working satisfactorily. The amount of rates leviable for the first half of this year is $85,000. This only $1,500 remains uncollected, while of the total $171,000 leviable during the whole year $129,000 are already collected, that the former deficiency lay ...
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