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fins de non recevoir, neither the records in the Land Office

nor those

in the Treasury would have been searched. As it was, they were searched, _ "the former by the Surveyor General, the latter by the Celinial Treasurer, and my charge was,

was proved. Mr. Caldwell, hen ever, being previously warned of what was in a Memorandum ralf afterwards, which was read at the table by the Acting Colonial Secretary, and pronounced both by him and

Governor to be conclusive.

by

the

1 going

on, sent

an

hour

I denied it. It was but a simple assertion on Mr. Caldwell's part, that the entry of his name

name in the

two records was erroneous, and or.

.....

: eccusioned by another alleged mistake on the part of his Attorney

But, before

our next

next meeting

meeting (which

Was

429

was on the 14th instant ), H is Excellency had Mlained the signal reputation of this

even

defence,-

if so flimsy a thins had readed reputation. There was first the cvidence of the Treasury Clack, who shewed by

his books that the last

half year's gate of Crown. Rent for the brothel property was paid at the end of February last into the Treasury by Mr Caldwell in person, and that, at his request,

the

receipt. was made out in the

of a Chinaman. There was

name of a

next, the same

gentleman

the

n''d own

ба

me

books,

official extract prem shewing that there were ten mae lots of land in the brothels quarter,

more

for which Mr Caldwell had in like Manner paid the Crown Rents in propria persona, on the same day, taking receipts for Chinamon in

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like