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4.

generally notorious,

notorious, in the case

of Mr.

sems to be generally.

Tarrant that that individual possesses considerable

the Colony, may

in addition to

any

real property in that he money,

have accumulated from a salary, which is large for his station in

life,

and

that therefore two or three months pay cannot be of essential importance to one who is better off than most Colonists, more especially with reference to his humble origin and condition, he having been steward of a merchant vessel. But exclusively of all other considerations, the Governor is bound by his instructions direct= from the Treasury to adhere on all occasions involving the expenditure of the Government to the observance of certain inflexible rules, for the violation of which he held personally responsible.

money

ان

1 justly

Should Sber Majesty's Government

sed fit to restore Mr Tarrant to his clerkship/

his pay but the Governor.

in arrear

will all be made good;

must deny all appeal with

is server

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reference to the employment of a Government servant, ( whose tenure of office is wholly during

pleasure) to any other judgement than that of

Her

&

Majesty's Government . The would decline to hold his high office longer,

were his administrative

acts as to Civil servants in the slightest degree

on the Supreme Court of this Colony,

dependent

the past proceedings of which have so

entirely

annihilated, his confidence in it, that the most

atrocious and palpable libels

against

the

des cuct, cony Government have remained unprosecuted,

the po

he

tion)

simply because it would be a known impossibility

to obtain a

a just decision in a case the thes / des kind, where the Government

True Copy

of that

I was prosecutor.

The Clerk of Councils will inform Wr Farrant that he is suspended from his clerkship the Land Office pending the pleasure of Iber

Majesty's Government, but that the Governs will

thing he has to state in his own exculpation.

F. Davis

receive

any

Maine Colonial Secretary.

(signed). J. Frue Copy).

Signed)

L. d'Almada efastre,

Clerk of Councils..