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wise to express myself in more positive terms when Mr. Hyndman had omitted before he left the Treasury to retain a copy of the Papers put in Court..

The fourth Paragraph of your letter instituting the following sentence "So much for your first explanatory Paragraph" appears to me under official correction unusual in an official correspondence, its offensive tone being only calculated to wound the sensibilities of an old Public Servant entitled as he is by his position in this Government to a more decorous treatment.

As to my designation of the Branch of my Department as that of the office of Police and Lighting Rates, I can only say that I have no improper motive in doing so; I can assure His Excellency that I only used the expression that I might have written of the office of the Treasurer or of the Accountant in connection with the Treasury Department.

The notices I signed as adverted to in your letter were not strictly speaking "Blank" and the absence of the date upon which I signed each notice was not an omission but purposely left "Blank" that the date upon which it was served might be attached to it at the moment it was left at the "Residence" of the Taxpayer affected by it; as strictly speaking I am supposed to serve those notices myself, I deemed it but proper that no date should be attached to it by my Deputy till the notice was actually served on the Taxpayer. I have since taken the sense of the law upon the point when I formed I had erred in judgment.

As to the dates which appeared upon the notices as that upon which...

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wise to express myself in more positive terms when Mr. Hyndman had omitted before he left the Treasury to retain a copy of the Papers put in Court.. The fourth Paragraph of your letter instituting the following sentence "So much for your first explanatory Paragraph" appears to me under official correction unusual in an official correspondence, its offensive tone being only calculated to wound the sensibilities of an old Public Servant entitled as he is by his position in this Government to a more decorous treatment. As to my designation of the Branch of my Department as that of the office of Police and Lighting Rates, I can only say that I have no improper motive in doing so; I can assure His Excellency that I only used the expression that I might have written of the office of the Treasurer or of the Accountant in connection with the Treasury Department. The notices I signed as adverted to in your letter were not strictly speaking "Blank" and the absence of the date upon which I signed each notice was not an omission but purposely left "Blank" that the date upon which it was served might be attached to it at the moment it was left at the "Residence" of the Taxpayer affected by it; as strictly speaking I am supposed to serve those notices myself, I deemed it but proper that no date should be attached to it by my Deputy till the notice was actually served on the Taxpayer. I have since taken the sense of the law upon the point when I formed I had erred in judgment. As to the dates which appeared upon the notices as that upon which...
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wise to express myself in more positive terms when Mr. Hyndman had omitted before he left the Treasury to retain a copy of the Parties put in Court.. The fourth Paragraph of your letter emstituting the following sentence "So " much for your first explanatory "Paragraph" appears to me under official correction inusual in an correspondence, its offensive tone being only calculated to mound the sensibilities of an old Public Servant entitled as he منه to by his position in this Government a more decorous treatment._ As to new my designation of the Branch of my Department as that the office of Police and Lighting Rates, of I can only only say doing motive m that I hav Ro I no iniproper can assure Ais Excellency that I only used the express ого I might have written of the office 51 of the leashier or of the Accountant in connection with the Frenoury Department.- The notices I signed as adverted to in your letter were not strictly speaking "Blank" and the absence of the date upon which I signed each notice was not an " omission but purposely left "Blank" that the date upon which it was served might be attached to it at the moment it was left at the "Residence" of the Taxpayer affected by it; as strictly speaking I am supposed to serve those notices myself, I deemed it but proper that no date should be attached to it by my Deputy till the notice was actually served on I have since taken the sense my behalf of the lant upon the point when I formed I had srred in judgment.__ As to the dates which appeared upon the notices as that upon which H L P of the
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wise to express myself in more positive terms when Mr. Hyndman had omitted before he left the Treasury to retain a copy of the Parties put in Court..

The fourth Paragraph of your letter emstituting the following sentence "So

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omission but purposely left "Blank" that the date upon which it was

served might be attached to it at the moment it was

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of the Taxpayer affected by it; as strictly speaking I am supposed to serve those notices myself, I deemed it but proper that no date should be attached to it by my Deputy till the

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