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discharging a public duty, I do not consider that on this account I have any claim upon the public, and I trust therefore that I may not appear ungrateful, or that I may not hurt the susceptibilities of my friends, if I do not avail myself of their most generous proposal to defray the cost of the recent legal proceedings. So practical a proof of the genuineness of their sympathy, though it may not be abused by me, adds none the less to the heavy obligation under which I must always remain to those kind and generous members of the community who have favoured me on this occasion with their confidence and support, and I must once more solicit your good offices to convey to them this expression of my heartfelt thanks.-Believe me, my dear Sir, yours very faithfully, J.M. PRICE, Surveyor-General.
The Hon. F. Bulkeley Johnson, M.L.C., &c., &c.
With my despatch No. 399 I also transmitted copy of a letter from Mr Price to the Colonial Secretary in which he thought himself absolved by the Chief Justice from all imputation, "proposes, on behalf of his Department, the appointment of a commission "of Inquiry."
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Enclosure (Govt. Notien. No. 418 of 1883), I annex a copy of the Commission which has been issued; and with the advice of the Executive Council, I have appointed to be members of it.
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The Attorney-General, (Mr O'Malley) The Treasurer, (Mr Lister), The Honourable F. B. Johnson (Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council).
I shall forward the report of the Commission when