CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2] — Page 449

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communication all parties may

have received their impression

as to the final nature

the

arrangement made, while for

I must repeat

I had

always understood that that

myself I must

arrangement

such as is

was s

implied in Mr. Magnine's

application of April 1865..

9.

I enclose letter just received from Mr. Wilson in which he forward the notice of resumption served on Mr Magnine.

10.

From these documents

it appears that Mr. Magnine

was

promised compensation " in "accordance with verbal instructions

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>

received

from

Sir Stercules Robinson",

and also that in all the other cases

7

was

a similar nature compensation

paid.

11.

offered, and in two actually

This certainly accords

a

with probability, and I think it likely that Mr. Magnine made his application roughly, tructing to Mr Cleverly after verbal arrangement to specify the details, and put the

application in proper form in his covering letter.

12.

I cannot think that Sir Hercules Robinson intended to

induce M. Magnine to lay out I

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