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"Committee of Enquiry that there were delays, and that the delays were due to his own fault. He draws attention to Mr. Monson's Memoranda on the Petitions. New matter was sent in by the Contractor for payment which led to the same conclusion. If necessary to show that the Surveyor General had spent money without authority, there were the cases of paving the Landings in the Gardens and building therein a house, which works cost over $12,000 and were not necessary...
Further, in order to acquaint the Surveyor General with the nature of the evidence against him, he reads certain extracts from the Notes taken before the Committee of Enquiry.
"The Surveyor General refuses to acknowledge anything. Whether anything was admitted by him before the Committee of Inquiry, or otherwise...
He proceeds to show the delay of receipt of one of the Requisitions to be entirely inaccurate in one instance - and inaccurate in two others - therefore he submits that no reliance could be placed on the rest. The Contractors were not, it is true, paid in proper time, and as he...