CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862 — Page 318

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to the claims and services.

of

others.

contained but

my

letter

one sentence.

as to the claims ad

services of others, namely that in which I adverted

to the circumstance Mat amongst those re

accently

honned "I save the

names

of pensons of shirtu Service

" and lower official position

Man

G

(

my

own, and whome

I did not thich could

have labored more

assiduously or succesfully

then I had done".

That

Amongst

the ten person

referred to there

are some

of shorter Service (both

General and

Colonial ) and

of lower official position

than mine.

Av

Are

mere facti

I believe Jour frame will find; but I did not pretend to decide as to the

Excellence and other claims

of these Gentlemen which influenced four gracis decision in their favor,

And

Awar

I was

was and am

that

(especially

fully

ero looker

one

feeling any

disaffointment