CO129-096 - Others - 1863 — Page 55

be but just that where a charge is preferred agoimet a Public officer conveying

a doubt as to the correctness of his statements

that

A

little

nure consideration should be

manisfested before

so serious an attack is

made upon the validity of his assertions;

your

presence

but having already and in convinced the Acting Governor of your error,

لم کا شکار

I have no desire to and another word._

I have already stated that as many as 247 notices mere informal and irregular to "Date" where 2000 and upwards had been issued and I have now to add that $907:50 cents or 190 Rates had already been recovered by, being paid into the Court of Summary Jurisdiction leaving hat a balance of 57 as to the date and for

notices informal

but

which amended notices will be served

tomorrow and on Wednesday. -

The Acting Governor

may rest assured

that no trouble shall be personally spared

by which I may guard against the

possibility

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to the

possibility of any loss

acorving Government from the maccontable error for which I am responsible.-

Before I conclude this letter which has already considerably exceeded the limito I had proposed to myself I wish to refer to what passed in

my

interview with the

Acting Governor and at which interview you

were

present

in

the

17th

the Instant when I

understood His Excellency to say that he believed that both difficulties and obstruction had been thrown in the

the proper

working of

when

way of

of the Ordinance No 5 of 1863, and I informed M. Mercer that if

by any possibility it were intended to apply those expressions to me individually

or otherwise that I called

upon him as the Acting Governor in the presence of the Acting leolonial Secretar, is affor me the satisfaction

of proving my innocence of the charge and how grossly ME Mercer had

been

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