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But you will be good enough to take care to inform such claimants that your doing so is only in the way of an investigation, and that the General Government does not pledge itself to pay such claims, either in part or in whole, without the special sanction of the General Assembly. I have, &c, W. Gisborne, Under Secretary. T. Beckham, Esq., New Plymouth, Taranaki.

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