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of the books ver

referred to is almost mit .

That being the case, it is obvious that the

destruction of these Books

dis absolutely and entirely

Anu

papers

remove the

-

pofsibility of proving their contents - dis

absolutely and entirely

remove the possibility

of proving the concluding part of "Charge

And A

accordingly ace fins the Commission

very properly reporting on this head, that there

'is no Evidence."

7.

The next thing that astonished Mr Day

" beyons Measure"," was alle ottery's assertion

that the absence of this evidence," (the

documentary, evidence

referred

to in the

last Paragraph, ) was a peculiar disappointment

to him :" Or this Mr Day remarks as

as follows:

" On the Contrary

d

" his enn: Statement clearly shows that until

own

" it was pronca be fore the Commission that "The Books have been destroyed,

he

was under

" the impresion that the Books had been "given ups to Mr Caldwell on behalf of " Mah. show wong for the parpone, it was assumed by him, of ensuring their destruction

I have

of

"gove carefully through the whole ettr atlay's evidence, and can

fina

indication whatever that he assumed

thing of the hink .

Mv

any -

8. the next imputation against Mr. Abay's veracity, conched in strong language,

in

my fredecessor's opinion, is basses a pow the impossibility of reomciling, in Mr. Day's view, the allusion to certain entries

in one

park of allr Alexy's reivenc =

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