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objectionable to retain in

an office of

considerate

responsibility a person whose

pecuniary

circumstances

are not such as to render

him independent, and

until I shall have received some explanation of the Cause of Mr Caldwell's

your report

difficulties, and whether his

Conduct during

embarcation

was

unimpeachable or

otherwise

I shall withhold my

sanction to his re-appointment.

M.

Copy.

No 1136.

For

Colonial Office, Victoria, 8th August 3

3rd December, 1847.

I have the honor to inform you that in consequence of the length of

time that Mr. D. R. Caldwell served

the Government prior to the

resignation

of his appointment in September last, and understanding him to have been a zealous useful servant, His Excellency The Governor

is pleased to take a favorable view of

his

appeal – and to reappoint him to the office of Interpreter and

assistant Superintendent of Police, with directions to reside at the

central police station, where you will

have the

goodness furnish him with a Room. Mr Caldwell

is to be considered Interpreter to the

Supreme Court particularly, though his

M. B. Williamson, Esqr.

Chief Magistrate.

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