CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8] — Page 216

is difficult for me to

amir al

any

Miriti

conclusion. Were it not

for the delay which such

a farther reprieve would

entail, I should have

declined expressing

any

opinion at all & required

the transmission of additional

papers. But I think

it will be better not

to protract the discussion

in this manner.

I can

therefore only unreservedly

state, that when questions of

account &

Expenditure

are submitted for the

approval & more

especially such

as relate to affairs

in which the public faith

must be concerned, more

care should be shown in

the proper departments

of government to collect and methodize the necessary information than appears to have been the case in this

instance.

With regard to the

main question, it is left

by this correspondence in a

very unsatisfactory state

I do not understand on what grounds his Excellency, after having stated the facts contributing

& the

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