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"constantly brought into contact with "such Commissioners" in the performance of "their duties. It is the inevitable condition and law of the Service. I also believe that the Governor best carries out his present instructions, who maintains the most frequent and confidential intercourse with his Commissioners.
13. I have dwelt at length on the above points, because of the general and permanent importance of the principles which they involve. I have now little time, as I take my departure from the Colony early tomorrow morning, to explain and analyse the charges recently brought against Mr. Moorhouse and against Mr. ... in investigated by the Executive Council. Those charges arose not from old or condoned matter of previous complaints against Mr. Moorhouse as he wished to imply. ... from his neglect to make certain ... monthly returns which he had been ordered to furnish, and for which I have at various times inquired ... the return as to the general condition of the Public Works, the money required for their progress and the ...
now I endorse the last requisition for the current month's expenditure and also
14. To explain this I refer to Enclosure No.1. and Enclosure No.2. the former shewing the progress and