CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 411

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I have the honour to acknow-

stant in which

ledge the receipt of your letter of 5th in

you inform me, bez direction of "His Excellency the Governor, that the tribunal for investigating such such charge, thes contoured in

my letter of the 2nd instant, is the Executive Council and not the Legislative Council, and that the fullest opport. unity will be afforded me for bringing them forward in the proper quarter.

In reply I beg to point out to

you

that the document, enclosed with my

communication

of the 2nd, shew that for Extel, in his capacity of Private Secretary to His Excellency and, as he alleged at the time cine continues to affirm, by the instructions of His Excellency, made to me certain injurious statement calculate to destroy the reputation and damag the chancecter of a gentleman on the Colony and that those statements

wer untrue.

Sometime before his return to the Colony, in October last, His Ex- cellency the Governor was made away of the allegations which had been put

forceurd

The Honourable

M. S. Jormochy.

Acting Colonial Secretary.