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Business prevented him from sending it in time to the Survey department a Memorandum requiring explanation of the Convicts having been permitted to work in such a dangerous spot, but it was actually entered in his list of "res agenda". It having been suggested to him, however, that so positive an order could not be disobeyed, His Excellency did not immediately communicate with the Assistant Surveyor General, and was much shocked when His Excellency heard of the accident on the 2nd Instant.
The following morning His Excellency directed M...