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the Colony,

even without leaving copies

of some of them - My despatch separate"

of 20th August, 1844, will prove to Four "Lordship that

my

attention had been

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directed at that early period to his reprehensible habit of employing Colonial Clerks in copying voluminous documents of his own, a practice which at once, burthenes the public with additional clerks, and kept his accounts in long

arrear

After the injunction addressed the 20th August

by

me

to Mr Martin

on

"

last, it appears to have been altogether futile to attempt exercising control over one who at once emancipated himself from the bonds of official discipline, and set at nought those principles which are generally supposed to influence persons of right feeling.

In

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533

In addition to the letter from

the Auditor, I have the testimony of the Clerks in the Treasury office to the fact of their having been employed by M. Martin in furnishing him with copies of voluminous papers. He latterly brought into the office a boy names Ford, son to the Cormourer of the 18th Regiment, for the, purpose of assisting to furnish him torth copies of official documents which he.. was not authorized to carry away from the Colony.

Scan relieve myself from the

her

responsibility of to Martin's proceedings

iware other

way

than by laying these circumstances before. Four Lordship, and P. 5. closing a memoriam Joecuments which

3.-

Mr. Martin has abstracted without,

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leaving copies.