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With respect to the whole extent of the charges against me, I submit for the serious consideration of His Excellency that they are not such as to call for any slow or serious enquiry. I respectfully record my protest against their being made the subject of any further enquiry, except in so far as they point to defects in the system established in the Department before my time—which I have not had power to change for the better and for which therefore I cannot be held responsible...
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The first charge made against me is that I have been guilty of long continued and wilful disobedience of important orders issued for my guidance in connection with the Regular preparation of the Forms and Requisitions which I was ordered to fill up for the better elucidation of the Expenditure suggested for each ensuing
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This charge is now limited.
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