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amount, This Cxcellency but express his astonishment

at

it has through you contrates

tannet

lo

pray.

This is

be

your indifference to the contractor's supplying 17 por cent loss of time than bor had engagect to furnish. It is impossible not to draw

that

conclusion tha

the

you prepared to be satisfied with that deficiency - which, however,

far below the reality, proved by R. Mowrray's ancelyn's . You appear to have forgotten

of the principal duties

that one

of your

department is to see

that the Public receives

whole

the

of the materials for which

especially

evident when it is considered.

that in the present case,

had

apparently

you

intention.

of making any deduction from

the

Mount Jayable

but

the contrary seemed satisfied and quite prepared to artify to the fulfilment of the contract which is equivalent to certifying that the Public had received

nost order

what the most

ordinary

supervision would have enabled.

to asceritain it had not

you

peceived, but which

you, neverthely