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and that there are no
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just or equitable reason why I should
be suspended from my employment;
fact from which even an inference can be drawn that such payments. made by my knowledge or consent. 7. I may be argued that the fact that I did not report the existence of the gambling house to the Government raises an in ference that I was receiving consideration for not doing
This argument however rests upon
on the assumption
ption that it was part of my duty as an Inspector of of Nuisances to report the existence of gambling houses. This I respect- fully contend is not the case.
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I had vertain definite structions given to me when I entered upon the duties of my.
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some
in
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and.
are contained in
office they the "Standing orders for the guidan
of Ius peelors of Muisances, made under oration 12 of Ordinance 24 of 1887° and signed by the Honourable 7 . I. Cooper, the then President and Mr. 8. Meballum, the secretary of the Sanitary board; of which dap- pend a copy,
The said Standing orders set out the multifarious duties, of a Janitary Inspector but contain
no mention of any obligation with regard to gambling
houses. + Further I submit that my Julies were
purely of a sanitary nature and that my time was fully taken up with reporting and preventing offences against the Sanitary laws of this Colony and that if I has interferred
with