CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5] — Page 301

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night to have been ready. I founbly adn't. The heavy pressure of a businessina department a

always under officered, has occasionally delayed the preparation of this Forms -

but I respectfully deny

there

A vas

that

anything whatever

wilful in the matter - and there

A d

a w

- entire absence of apignable

motive for any needless delay.

to the alleged value and a importance of begmost respectfully to refor

the document I

As

to

ony letter, to the Colonial Searetary

my

rotoy of

the 30th November 1870- in

which the defects of

the

setem

of monthly Requisitions.

Avere

239

fully gone

into and an am

improved

plan suggested a plan adopted by stis Excellmay

since his e

return to the Colony

December last

34--

Now it

entire

gra

in

it is clear that the

avamew

of

the first.

charge rests upon the apumption that until this Requisition has been approved by the Governor, on other office for

Offices for the time being Administering the lover a ment of the Colony- the Survey

Department has no

prove I with

any

right to

work

natter what and that every

cent expended between the first

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