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Consular and Superintendency Departments which alone would require a first-rate accountant supervised by myself.
Your Excellency has also been pleased to appoint me to collect and receive the revenues of the Colony, direct and in detail, which would furnish unceasing occupation for another Clerk.
I am fully aware of the desirability of keeping down the public expenditure, and will do my best to carry on the appointed business with the aid of W. Keed be employed as a Clerk in this Office at a salary of $100 a month.
I have (skipped KM Martin (Finance copy)) requested that Frederick Mr. A. Boyce, one Clerk in addition to Mr. Mercer and Mr. Collies.
I have found here a Mr. Medl, Gentleman of good family from Inverness, whose testimonials from Messrs Dent & Co will, I hope, recommend him to your Excellency's notice, and I have accordingly requested the permission of your Excellency, that