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have the honor to transmit
سانند
letter
to express in
he has addreped to you complaining
ssparently of my conduct and Correspondence
in connection with a criticiem
criticism of Mr.
F
Emith's Department about the working
F
the Contagion Disences Ordinance that appeared in a local Newspaper in November 1877 and about which I was
questioned in the Legislative Council
2.
M. Smith has left the Colony,
and unlap you
think it recepary for
me to do so, I should prefer not to
make
any
Comment - as far
I am
as
concomed _ on his letter, beyond saying
that I sie nothing in it to induce me
to alter the Opinion
he compelled me
my
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Letter
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1. # September 1878
that his conduct in this particular
matter as described by himself, did not
entirely justify the trust I had reposed in hire when I appointed him
in
1877 to be Acting Colonial Secretary
for a few months.
Another reason
why
I may
properly refrain from entering into the
various details alluded to in the
Correspondence is that I believe it has to some extent been dealt with by the
on the Contagions
Commissioners
Diseases Ordinance, and I have not
received their report.
yet res
4.
As I observed however, among