" to the Government - in letters dated
"29th January
"the
and 21st March that
Staff of his Department
" insufficient
who
and on the 11th of July 1864
" he applied for the Assistance of an
inconvenience - he sent
A.
- younger
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Brother to assist in the Department;
to work was
who whilst
willing
unequal
to the
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My letter of the 4th of July 1864
requirements of the position.
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additional sub-collector but these
" representations and applications
were
" not successful and to add to the difficulties " of the situation Mr. Hyndman the "principal clerk connected with that
absent from
Branch fell ill and was "thus unable to perform his duties from the 20th of July to " the 18th of November 1864"
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Mr. Hyndman's indisposition
not
although not severe was protracted from day to day
until it proved a serious
and those of a preceding
date having
proved ineffectual in the object they had
no one at the
Treasury intelligent enough or sufficiently
acquainted with the working
and routine
of the Police and Lighting Rate Branch
to prepare the required
Lists of Defaulters
I had to wait the return of Mr. Hyndman to his post - November 17th
1864 - when the Lists for the 1st and 2nd quarters of 1864 were then made and