Wallingford April 20th 1864 Dear McLean, I have your letter thanks for the news it contains. I have a lot of people here tonight and cannot make time to write you. Moreover I have little to write about. The papers you send up re Wellington Debt I will go over and return by next Mail. What is being done in the way of preparation for the location of the men about to arrive for the protection of the frontier. Some kind of shelter and provisions for them on their arrival there and also the means of taking them there shd. at least be prepared beforehand. Have you to do this, or Whitmore? Whoever has to do it - you will get the blame if it is not done. Excuse my hurried scrawl I write amidst talking to me and through me. Yours always, J. D. Ormond I enclose you Monro's letter to me re Colenso sent. Monro assumes he has a power he has not. The House decide a case of that kind not the Speaker. The point he raises vis. That if the Office is given up the offence is condoned is in my opinion also wrong - the Act says the election is thereby void or words to that effect. J. D. O.