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view to meet the Ordinary as well as the extraordinary Surveys of the money placed

under

my

charge.

This deficiency resulted, first from the absence for some time in the beginning of this year, of both the compradore and the Shroff, which plased me under the Merssity of Counting and shroffing

with my own hands;

the moneys

Secondly from the circumstance that Several thousand Dollars received by wright from the Oriental Banks Corporation

and other Sources, were

found short in number when

to

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Counted off in small payment: and lastly, from my having had

purchase a fer Sovreigns (when there was no more than & Bound; worth of gold in the Keasury Best and Pault) for repayment of a Judicial Separt,

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which had been issued Sometime

you

before Governmer & .

My pupore in addressing on this present subject is to request that you will be pleased to obtain the sanction, Mis Exellency the Governor "for the repayment to me off

on account of the Colonial

of

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the total amount of the above- -mentioned losses, in consideration

of the extraordinary circumstances under which they took

place.

I hard, the

(Signed) I Myndman.

Three

Capy) M. J. Didges

Acting Colonial Secretary,