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suggest that his Excellency's approval of the substitution of flour for vegetables be withheld until it be ascertained by a careful inquiry, whether it has all been properly appropriated to strictly public pur poses.

(Signed)

GEO. MACLEAN.

Sir,

Deputy Commissary-General Maclean to the Comptroller-General.

February 14, 1846. I DO myself the honour to state for his Excellency the Lieutenant- Governor's information, that in a report addressed to me from Norfolk Island, the fact of large numbers of the Government sheep having been clandestinely killed by the convicts is strongly represented, no less than 46 having been thus made away with in the quarter ended 31st December last, while eleven more have gone in the same way in the first ten days in January.

I trust that the attention of the Civil Commandant may be particu larly directed to this matter, and that he may be able to devise some effectual means for preventing the continuation of a practice which entails a direct and very serious loss upon the resources of this department.

GEO. MACLEAN.

(Signed)

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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C.O.885

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