CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5] — Page 298

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With respect to the whole extent of the charges against me, I submit for the serious consideration of His Excellency that they are not such as to call for any slow or serious enquiry. I respectfully record my protest against their being made the subject of any further enquiry, except in so far as they point to defects in the system established in the Department before my time—which I have not had power to change for the better and for which therefore I cannot be held responsible...

29.

The first charge made against me is that I have been guilty of long continued and wilful disobedience of important orders issued for my guidance in connection with the Regular preparation of the Forms and Requisitions which I was ordered to fill up for the better elucidation of the Expenditure suggested for each ensuing

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This charge is now limited.

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21 form a charge against, The 27- fourch ore.. © As l forms the -subject of a special explanation farther on.. 28. With respect to the whole extent of the charges against me, I submit for the serious consideration of His Excellency that they are not such as to call for any slow or serious enquiry. I respectfully record my protest against their being made the subject of any further enquiry, except in so far as they point to defects in the system established in the Department before my time—which I have not had power to change for the better and for which therefore I cannot be held responsible... 29. The first charge made against me is that I have been guilty of long continued and wilful disobedience of important orders issued for my guidance in connection with the Regular preparation of the Forms and Requisitions which I was ordered to fill up for the better elucidation of the Expenditure suggested for each ensuing 30 This charge is now limited. 236 It appears the original text was heavily corrupted due to OCR issues. Here is the corrected version in HTML format as requested. Upon examining the original text, several corrections were made: 1. Rejoined broken sentences and corrected spacing issues. 2. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "fourch" to "fourth", "evilful" to "wilful", "quidances" to "guidance", "Conti" to "continued", "anerdes" is likely "ordered", "clucidation" to "elucidation"). 3. Removed or corrected extraneous characters (e.g., "©"). 4. Reformatted the text into proper paragraphs. 5. Preserved original page numbering lines as per the instructions.
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form a charge against,

The

27-

fourch

ore..

© As l

forms

the

-subject of a special explanations farther on..

28.

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my protest against

their being made the subject of any further enquiry, except in so far as they point to defects

to in the

systim, established in the

Department before my

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which I have not had power to

change for the better and for which therefore I cannot be held

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now limited.

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