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The details of the case are so fully explained in the various documents referred to above, that it seems to me unnecessary to further enter into them.
4. Your Lordship will observe that the Council came to the conclusion, in which I concurred, that Mr. Freire had been guilty of neglect in the performance of his duty, but that taking into consideration the unsatisfactory manner in which the business of the Money Order Office was carried on, the full penalty of suspension should not be inflicted.
5. I have, therefore, with the advice of the Council, and subject to Your Lordship's approval, imposed the minor punishment of reduction, as explained in my Despatch