CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12] — Page 106

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to be a distinction without a ~

appear to you difference, but to

my

mind there is a wide

difference in the nature of the tive obligations.

Besides I do not see how the Government

could be placed in a worse

are now;

position than they

for they have not now, and Never

own

have had anything beyond my personal security;- and then there is the penal clause in the cognovit of making

the whole amount payable

on demand

Shmed I make default in the payment

of any one

of the monthly instalments; -

Surely this is security enough.

རིམ་

I am exceedingly obliged to you

all the trouble

you

have so kindly~

taken in this matter and I trust what

I have urged will prevent any necessity

for acting hostilitų" against me; but in such

an event. I beg you

will consider this note

as written without prejudice.

The Honorable

I. Imale, Esque,

You

1

I am ver

(Signed) D. R. Caldwell.

(

Arme copy)

Holonial Secretary.

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