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supplying are with a garteed document, apparently concocted for the purpose, suppressing statements - more by him so material to my interests previously made to the Executive and which if I had been aware of at the time I could easily have disproved.
The issue of such a paper from the Colonial Secretary's Office reflects upon the honour of His Excellency's Government, and I trust the matter may be thoroughly investigated and the discredit attaching to it be visited upon the party blameable.
The statements made being hitherto unknown to me could not possibly refute. But I now avail myself of the opportunity to solemnly declare that the allegations made by Mr Price are false and palpably absurd.
They are such as neither Mr Price nor Ms Bowsher ever ventured to hint to me in the conversations we have had relating to the subject nor in any of the long series of letters which have passed between the Surveyor General's department and myself.
The result of a petition presented by them is that two years and a half ago claiming simple justice remains unanswered to this day, but under the circumstances I cannot feel otherwise than grateful that the subject has received some attention. Fortunately for me the good sense of His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable members of the Executive Council prevented them from accepting without hesitation the statements which I now find were made against me, though silence with regard to some of them...
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