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did not recognize the eminent
desirability of having it cleared
off without delay.
I beg
deep regret
to express my
at this failure to take a very
necessary precaution.
regards the latter, I still maintain
As re
possible
that it was perfectly safe
for Alves, who occupied a room by
himself
to receive money in payment
of Crown Rent without my
cognizance. Even
if
I had
happened to see money being paid
to him I might well have believed
that it was
on account of his private
property and not on
account of Crown Rents.
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The moderate language of the
Commission does not appear to have
at all recommended itself to the
Colonial Secretary, who, not content
with representing the arrears as
the most heinous offence,
has
gone beyond the report and
indict ... to show that I have
been guilty of continuous neglect of
duty in not, as he stated, securing
the immediate placing to the credit
of the Government of all the Government
moneys that passed through my office.
...
In an interview with the Colonial
Secretary on the 12th instant, I endeavoured
to ascertain what this novel charge amounted to.
The