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I might have drawn Bills and encouraged every species of Extortion, Drunkennes, & profligacy, as was the case with my predecessor have been secretly assasinated by those who have made fortunes by the most disgraceful means, but who if I am to believe reports have been much countenanced, nay carressed, by many, altho not by you; however I shall study to preserve my integrity which shall never cost me an accusing reflection or my Children a Blush.
Respecting the 4th, 5th, & 6th, paragraphs I neither think the galled [indecipherable]; By that very regulation, he or his representative here is deprived of the means of selling the Breeding Stock to kill and vend at an exhorbitant price. A perusal of the orders in question will shew who has suffered & who has gained, and had it not been for that measure great would have been the destruction among the sheep. As to the unwarrantable inuendoe of diminishing the incitement to breed Animals & thereby retard the progress of the Colony! a glance at the following comparative view of the numbers & [indecipherable] of that