CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861 — Page 68

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me such a certificate mast confess I am not surprised at his refusal, for the following reasons, the present Colonial Secretary did not return to the Colony for some time after my leaving the Surveyor General (who recommencted my application to be allowed to resign) had left the Colony before my application for the certificate

Sir John

arrived there

was

Bowring also- and I belive that Dr. Bridges (who the Acting Secretary at the time of my resignation) had

also

also left the Colony. there was

therefore

no one that could

five

hun the Subject

any information

ow

In reply to the application. for refunding the cost of the passage money - I am adviced by counsel to whom the whole facts of the case have been submitted, that Sam not

liable, and beg to enclose a copy of the Counsels opinion. I would again most respectfully draw the attention of this frace the Duke of hewenste to the general hardships that

this appointment entailed

on

me

mreign

Llanes Rees

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