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52/6716 - 12th Aug't 1852.

Pol: Mag'te [Magistrate] Ipswich

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Requesting to be allowed to withdraw complaint against Mr Daveney ... Clerk to Bench.

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[letter]

Ipswich July 31st 1852

Sir,

Referring to my Letter dated the 29th May last inclosing [sic] several Notes, which formed the particulars of a complaint - which I was compelled to make against Mr Daveney the Clerk of Petty Sessions here; I have now the honor the inclose [sic] a Copy of a Letter, which I received yesterday from Mr Daveney, by the hand of Mr Panton a Magistrate of this Town, making so full and ample an Apology as makes it my more grateful Duty, to request the permission of His Excellency the Governor General to be allowed to withdraw the Complaint and I do this the more readily, as I have no longer occasion to doubt Mr Daveney['s] Competency for the Duties of his Office, if he continue to give them the constant and careful affection they require and what he has lately given to them -

I have the honor to be

Sir

Your Obedient, humble Servant

[signed] H.H. McArthur.

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The Hon'ble

The Colonial Secretary

......... &c ... &c ... &c

Sydney

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[notes in left margin]

Inclosure [sic] Copy of

Mr Daveney Letter

... 29th July 1852.

[in another hand]

I see no reason to object to allow Mr McArthur to withdraw his letter of complaint against Mr Daveney, and I am gratified to find the dispute between these gentlemen has been settled in a satisfactory manner to both parties.

... 14th ... [initials] ChFR

[in a third hand]

Mr McArthur

........ 18 Aug't

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