Toronto 25 Jany 93

My dear Attorney General

Respecting the matter of which I was speaking to you and of which I happened to say that so many municipalities & Public [parties] had requested by Petitions & address that [he] would give me a 2nd Term, I have just to say that [those Members] but whose addresses are locked up in a box of which at present I cannot just find the key are the [illegible] of this City new

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County Council of York - Barrie, Chatham, Penetanguishene, Simcoe, Essex, Gananoque, Whitby, Peterboro, several others which I forget, but whose addresses or copies of them, were sent to me. During the last 2 years at all public [illegible] the true good will & wish was expressed.

I have held every office this municipality, my [illegible] [city], could give me - alderman,Mayor, Pres't of their Council, Member [I may almost say the same] of my Province, Pres't of their Council

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during the union of the 2 Provinces and Lieut Governor of the Province - as I had the ambition to be Mayor and Governor, I refused as Sir John Macdonald's letters will show, the offices of County Attorney, Collector of Customs (twice), Registrar (twice), County Judge, and now my ambition is, I have [to say] [not increased] the additional honour which your Government requested L'Lansdowne, without my knowledge I should have, that I [illegible] it, as against the opinion of others perhaps a [high] [honour], and as if conferred, [upon] [illegible] [ ] one,whose father was knighted, and whose son [illegible] his [illegible] had had the same honour conferred upon him - The [illegible words]

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