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6.

being discharged at such a period

AS AVDAN

ld prevent his landing in England during the Winter Months . His return to England at the present period exposes him to no such contingency.

The Original Contract __ between Mr Kydd and the Government clearly terminated

All the s

admitted by himself at the bucks we

Kept adve agreement:

expiration of the first 3 years. Thanh 18,

If the Parties

were not ad

idem " as to the terms of the new

Contract intended to be entered into

it follows that there

with mu

was no Contract

from that period and Mr Kydd would in that case be entitled only

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to his passage home and to a

"quantum

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ntum meruil" for his services

since the expiration of the Original

- Contract and up to the dost

of his quan

brown term

landing in England. This meruit he has hitherto received by having drawn pay at the rate of £500 per annum, the maximum rote under his original agreement :

I am therefore of opinion

that Mr Kydd's claims against the Government have no in Law.

foundation

(Signed) Julian Po unaofate, Attorney General. 18th July 1871.

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