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were in my private Desk this Committee seized altho' [although] I received some of them a considerable time before, yet the public Concerns of the Colony did not give me time to peruse them.
75 - Messrs. Palmer, Campbell and my Secretary Friends of Government, were present at the seizure of all the papers and remonstrated against the unlawfulness of taking them away, but the Committee answered, they were the only competent judges of what ought to be done; and Captain Abbott told my Secretary he as very impertinent in dictating to them.
76 - Among the papers of the proceedings concerning the six Officers the two Letters from them on the 20th and the Judge Advocates Memorial to me were missing. I therefore desired the Judge Advocate might be sent to. Mr Surgeon Jamison was appointed to go accordingly but Mr Atkins denied having the Memorial saying he had only the rough copy which the Committee directed to be delivered to the Lieutenant Governor.
77 - To add to other insults, I received a written Message from Major Johnston, by Mr Bayly, stating that rations should be continued from the public store to my
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