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and wilful disobedience of important orders—roots on evidence of a number of particular instances—in which positive orders were issued—and were not observed.
10. If furnished with a statement of the particular orders alleged to have been disobeyed—and of the particular instances of disobedience, I might and possibly would be able to point out that one alleged order was merely temporary in nature, that another was cancelled by non-enforcement, or that a third was more a recommendation than an order.—I might explain away a supposed case of disobedience, by showing that really there was no disobedience, only the appearance of it:—another supposed case, by showing clearly that the non-observance of the order was accidental, not wilful.—A third case by showing a discretionary power in myself as head of a department—or a verbal dispensation by a superior.
18. I cannot answer general charges of disobedience and neglect and mismanagement, without being told, when, where, and in what precise points I have been disobedient, neglectful or incompetent.
19. How strongly this