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COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY BELFAST 11th January 1916 Sir,
I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of
8th inst and to inform you that I have nothing
to do with the expenses of civilian witnesses
attending Assizes I underatand the Crown Solicitor has already
written to you about this matter Your obedient servant Robert Dunlop
D.I for
Commissioner
R.I.C. R.Brown Esq; 10.Quality st LEITH.
This is a letter from Robert Dunlop (b. 1869), a district inspector in the Royal Irish
Constabulary, to Robert Brown, assistant manager at the National Marginal Company
in Leith, Scotland. Dunlop is writing to inform Brown that he is not in charge of
the expenses of civilian witnesses attending assizes. Brown had made several complaints
about the failure to pay his expenses for attending a trial for fraud.