CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12] — Page 349

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26.

by the founcil at you'r

orow

suggestion

"I consider it therefore doubly necessary

and

intention to send to

to place

the

circumstance in its full light,.

with this view it is

my

Eael (prey a copy of this correspondence, and

"course include Your Exscellenou's

which will of course

Communications."

Shave, to,

Signed) Genge L'Aquilar,

M. General.

His Copscellency Sir John Davis B

"Council Room, Victoria,

2nd. December, 1847.

to which you My letter of yesterday refer in yours of today, meant that all matters relating to the late investigation must be discussed

by

us

infouncil, and not by additional correspondence, for which I have no time. All

до

your late letter will of course go. the Minutes of Council-

home on

27.

343

I beg to state that we waited for you

from 11, the hour of Council, until 1/4 past 12,

and I have placed

on the Minutes the words

to which now refer, and which.

you

can hear at

the next meeting. I need hardly informs you

that it is a Colonial Regulation that

your

proposed communication to Earl Spey should be sent through the Governor

I have, te

Signed) J. F. Davis.

The Honble

Major General D'Aquilar, CB.

Sir John

Davis at the commencement

of theso Minutes has, with respect to the precies words used regarding

in

the collision with the sentry

the Verandah, claimed the same indulgence

the

that has po often been pleaded during

communication and

and it would, now

investigation for careless imperfect memory ;

appear

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