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(4.) In addition to, and not in substitution for, the first, second, and third claims, the sum of £7,000, as damages for breaches by your Majesty of the contract between your Majesty's Government and your petitioner—that is to say, by the revocation 01 your petitioner's said appointment on the 17th day of June, 1881, and by the exclusion of your petitioner from the appointment of the sth day of November, 1881. 22. And your petitioner prays that, for the purposes of the first and third claims, proper accounts and inquiries may be taken and had for the purpose of ascertaining the amount due to your petitioner. Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays that your Majesty will be most graciously pleased to order that right be done in this matter, and that your Majesty's Attorney-General in New Zealand may be required to answer the same; and that your petitioner may henceforth prosecute his •complaint in the said Court, and take such other proceedings as may be necessary. And your petitioner, as in duty bound, shall ever pray. Jdltos Vogel, (By his agent, Barry B. Vogel). [Approximate Oat of Paper.— Prup&ratioD, Nil; printing(l,3oocopies), L'l KM

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