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if they had thought action needful.
21.
A similar protest may be entered with equal justice against any procedure on the first charge, that of failing to send in Requisitions at the proper dates. I have been already severely reprimanded, for any neglect of
which I have been guilty in respect of this matter, by letter No.487 of
the 13th October 1881, and that reprimand has been placed on record. Since that date there have been further delinquency
22.
on my part
My Requisition for October was in the Colonial Secretary's hands on the 11th of that month, although in the list sent it is marked as not having been received until the 25th of October, evidently a mistake.
23.
Another mistake occurs in the date given for the receipt of my Requisition for December. It was in the Colonial Secretary's hands on the