CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4] — Page 74

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in which matter were at the close of that

year may be well imagined

The

erefrected

which di

cerisequences as

might be

were disastrous and the evil

during the last

the last two quarters of

1863 became

gradually

apparent

a

small scale.

moueased mis magnitude

stil it reached the point at which the voluminous corresprendence before

the Commission the institution of this Enquirge.

commenced año led to

With reference to the frausage in the Letter of Instuctions to the Commission

in which it is stated that "it does not

appear

that this

mas

growing deficiency formally reported to the Colonial Secretary's Office until some time after the defracture

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