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I have the honour to be,
Sir,
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Your obedient servant
ed/- D. W. Tratman.
Head of San: Dept:
Joseph A. Bullin Esq.
Your Petitioner had previously been informed by the Head
of the Sanitary Department that the evidence taken down by the
Attorney General's shorthand writer had been sent to him for
revision and required considerable correction, which was made.
Your Petitioner does not know whether the evidence of the
other witnesses was similarly revised: but has been denied as
above mentioned copies of all the evidence whether revised or
not.
Your Petitioner understands that the Committee which
investigated the charges against him made certain recommenda-
tions to His Excellency the Governor in Council upon certain
evidence which was put before His Excellency in Council but
your Petitioner does not know whether such evidence was as revised and amended by the witnesses themselves without his knowledge or as actually given: and Your Petitioner has been afforded no opportunity of re-examining the witnesses on such
reversed and amended statements.
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Your Petitioner is therefore very much handicapped in dealing the evidence that was given against him.
9. At the hearing the committee consisted of the Honourable the Attorney General (Kr. J.A.0.Bucknill,K.C.) the Honourable E. A. Hewett, 0..G. and the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer
(Mr. A.G.M.Fletcher)
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The evidence of the witnesses was interpreted through Portuguese official of the Treasury, although there was no reason why all the witnesses should not have given their