Trusting you will not consider this refusal any want of respect to or
confidence in you,
Samuel P. Lord, Esq.,
Melbourne.
This is the exhibit, marked A, referred to in the affidavit of Samuel
Perkins Lord, sworn before me this 25th day of September, 1871.
W. ATTENBOROUGH,
A Commissioner of the
Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria for taking
Affidavits.
I, Samuel Perkins Lord, of Collins Street west, Melbourne, in the
colony of Victoria, merchant, make oath and say as follows; that is
to say:
- 1st.
- On the 21st day of September instant, I saw Mr. J. K.
Collins, of Sandridge, near Melbourne, stevedore, who stated
to me, and I believe it to be true, that he was the
stevedore of the confederate ship Shenandoah while in the
port of Melbourne, and that he took on board her coal when
here, and he at the same interview offered to furnish me
with a copy of his account against the ship, but on my
afterward applying to him for such copy account, he refused
to give it.
- 2d.
- [719] On the 21st day of
September instant, I saw Mr. Henry W. Lang-lands, who is the
manager of the Langlands Foundery Company, carrying on
business *here as Langlands Roundery Company, who told me
that their company did the repairs to the said vessel called
the Shenandoah, when she was in this port; that he paid some
of her bills; among the rest he paid the said J. K. Collins
the sum of three hundred pounds for stevedore work on the
Shenandoah. He stated to me, at first, that he was willing
to furnish me with a copy of his account, and afterward on
applying to him for it, he showed it to me, but refused to
let me have it, unless upon my assurance that it would not
be used against his, the British government. This I refused
to give.
- 3d.
- I have this day received from the said J. K. Collins the
letter marked A, hereunto annexed.
Sworn at Melbourne, in the colony of Victoria, this 25th day of
September, 1871.
Before me,
W. ATTENBOBOUGH,
A Commissioner
for taking Affidavits in the Supreme Court in the Colony
of Victoria.