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with M. Bridges could have been carried out and that he should have

retained Office pending the disagreeable topics sender discussion (with whose details he is far better acquainted) than

any

other persons) - but he's has

frequently pres

o pressedsmed to relieve hem representing the great sacrifices hos was making and the fact of his having tendered This resignation and that of my conditionals acceptance) there of having been notified

to the Members of thes Executive Council, become matters of public notoriety in the Colony, 17 felt a

could not be

bo darningly

on the

retain M. & Bridges.

o conditions proposed,

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by him, and whichs her declined to modify, that he should hold G

Office) unkt Mr. Mercer's returns ._

My correspondence will show how much value M.Bridges services, but Dagreed with him that in the fermenting state of the public mend it.

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