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Mr Pauncefote's assertions so relate to threats being used, relying, however, as he evidently did upon the imperfect statement of his Clerk: But I have very much to regret that in your letter of the 16th Instant you should so positively assert that "There is no reason to doubt, as you do doubt, Mr Pauncefote's statement that the money was offered at the Treasury on the 3rd Instant" when there is not a single sentence, not a single word in my second communication that can bear such an interpretation. Indeed, let me draw your attention to the first Paragraph of my letter as before, it does not convey inferentially to your mind the admission that a clerk did call to pay Mr Pauncefote's Rate, but that he misunderstood what might in substance have been said to him, i.e., that the warrant to recover the amount overdue had passed from the Treasury to the Board of Summary Jurisdiction to whom application had been made.

As to my statement that I had no doubt that the occupant of Lot W: 145 "was and is included in the List" submitted on the 4th Instant to the Court, I conceived in that case, although I had no doubt in my mind upon the matter, that in the absence of Mr Hyndman, my only reliable authority in such cases, being dependent on his staff for information, it would not have been wise to express myself in more positive terms when, owing to Mr Hyndman's having omitted before he left the Treasury to retain a copy of the Papers put in Court.

The fourth paragraph of your letter contains the following sentence: "So much for your first explanatory paragraph."

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Mr Pauncefote's assertions so relate to threats being used, relying, however, as he evidently did upon the imperfect statement of his Clerk: But I have very much to regret that in your letter of the 16th Instant you should so positively assert that "There is no reason to doubt, as you do doubt, Mr Pauncefote's statement that the money was offered at the Treasury on the 3rd Instant" when there is not a single sentence, not a single word in my second communication that can bear such an interpretation. Indeed, let me draw your attention to the first Paragraph of my letter as before, it does not convey inferentially to your mind the admission that a clerk did call to pay Mr Pauncefote's Rate, but that he misunderstood what might in substance have been said to him, i.e., that the warrant to recover the amount overdue had passed from the Treasury to the Board of Summary Jurisdiction to whom application had been made. As to my statement that I had no doubt that the occupant of Lot W: 145 "was and is included in the List" submitted on the 4th Instant to the Court, I conceived in that case, although I had no doubt in my mind upon the matter, that in the absence of Mr Hyndman, my only reliable authority in such cases, being dependent on his staff for information, it would not have been wise to express myself in more positive terms when, owing to Mr Hyndman's having omitted before he left the Treasury to retain a copy of the Papers put in Court. The fourth paragraph of your letter contains the following sentence: "So much for your first explanatory paragraph."
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for as they

Mr Panneefotes assertions so relate to threats being used relying

however

as he

evidently did upon the

imperfect statement of his Clerk: But

I have

very

much to

regret

letter of the 16th Instant you

that m

your

should so

positively assert that "There is no reason

77

#

h

" to doubt, as you do doubt, Mr "Pauncefote's statement that the

money was

offered at the Freasmy

on the 3rd Instant" when there is

I not a

single sentence not a single

mood m

bear such

my

an

let me draw

second

communication that can

interpretation. Indeed

your

attention to the

as before obsuant

this is a matter of construction Meaning

Paragraph of my letter are mill it not compey inferentially to your

mind the admission that a clerk did call to pay Mr Panneefote's Rate, but be that he misunderstood

that it

may

what might in substance have been

said to him, ie that the gathering of

the

According to this

the Pase impaid

on the 31st of August

had passed from the Treasury to the bout. of Summary Jurisdiction to whom application had been made

for as

aw

warrant to recover the amormt overdue._

As to

my

statement that I had no

doubt that the occupant of Lot W: 145

" was and is included in the List

" submitted

m

the pet Instant to the Cont

I conceived in that

case

although I had no doubt in my mind upon the matter that in the absence of Mr Hyneman,

thor to the attoth my only reliable authority in such cases,

Forth is.

dependent on his

staff for information it would not have been rise to express

as to his Department

what women be the

effect if the clerk

"myself in more positive terms when web cam ingeligte s Hyndman had omitted before he

left the Treasury to retain a

copy of the Parties put in Court. _

The fourth porragraph of your letter instituting the following sentence

"So much for your first explanatory

"Porragraph

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