always night to have been ready. I foundly hadn't. The heavy pressure of a businessina department always under officered, has occasionally delayed the preparation of this Forms -
but I respectfully deny there was anything whatever wilful in the matter - and there was an entire absence of assignable motive for any needless delay.
As to the alleged value and importance of the document I most respectfully refer to my letter, to the Colonial Secretary, of the 30th November 1870, in which the defects of the system of monthly Requisitions were fully gone into and an improved plan suggested - a plan adopted by His Excellency since his return to the Colony in December last.
Now it is clear that the basis of the first charge rests upon the assumption that until this Requisition has been approved by the Governor, or other office for the time being Administering the Government of the Colony, the Survey Department has no power to work, no matter what, and that every cent expended between the first
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