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order to the Superintendent of Sable Island to hand over the same to Mr Campbell.

We cannot refrain from remarking that His Excellency should have been advised to appoint Mr William Townsend to proceed to Sable Island to investigate the complaints made by us against the Superintendent of the Island when no specific charges have been preferred against him by the Commissioners to the Lieut Governor. But as complaints were laid to the charge of the Superintendent of Sable Island the Commissioners deemed it their duty to address an official letter to the Provincial Secretary respectfully soliciting His Excellency to direct the Superintendent of the Island to proceed to Halifax to explain or refute the accusation alleged against him: to which communication the Commissioners received no reply.

They further consider themselves bound to state for the information of the Lieut Governor that with all due deference they conceive that all matters and charges either against the Superintendent of the Island or the Commissioners could be more
satisfactorily