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reflected most strongly
my
characters for honesty and integrity
but.
which yet been taken.
further steps have
Notwithstanding all these
annoyances
I have continued to do
the work of my Office and have reduced that which I found in the utmost disorder to something like order and regularity, however now 1. that I have come to the point of dealing with the bankruptcies with which the convict Huffam was connected I am met with difficulties
the Chief Justice
which the power of
enables him to raise and which I am
unable to
overcome.
I have through
the medium of the Chief Justice asked
to have brought to the notice of His
Excellency,
one
of
these obstructions but
with the integrity of the Chief Justice,
and the advantage which his position
and long acquaintance with the Colony gives him I am powerless to contend any longer.
re
The Chief Justice has written two long letters dated respectively June 24 1880 and July 30th 1880 which I have answered categorically my
letters dated respectively June 25 - 1880
and August 3rd 1880 and when I have asked him,
as the responsible
head of
the Office for definite instructions
in my
letter
dated August 10th 1880