CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9] — Page 160

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information

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imentant and serviceable to the

Colony.

24. The fourth charge is the

riginal bought by Mr Munow in his letter to your Grace of 7th May last, which he here swells into five. As now presented it is one that concerns the Excentive Council mose

olan myself individually, but as on receipt of your bancé's despatel

в under reply, and before receipt

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this printed letter of M. Manow,

I had taken steps to answer the

charge

as it then stood, it will be

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sufficient

here

if I enclose correspondence

with the Attorney General to whom I sent all the papers in the

van

Kee-lung-por-own care, and who has certified that there is nothing in those papers to justify Mr. Murrow's imputation

25.

I do not wish to

appear

to

screen myself behind this strictly legal opinion. When Mr. Caldwell

in August 1853 signed the beclaration of ownership of the Lorcha Keelungpos-cin before me as Colonial Secretary, Sof

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Course

Knew the purport of the declaration,

ん

formal document required by Ordinance

but I had no cause to doubt its correctness.