only in compliance with Your Lordship's specific instructions, despatch ho: 23, of 30th December, 1843. Hook upon this
so
as
- salutary and wise a regulation, as to recommend its continuance and strict
observance.
or
Ido not see the necessity. advantage of the Surveyor teneralking a member of Council, as propaved by - In Gordon. The limited numbers of the - Councils, as ordered for this Colony pender it necesary to appoint to thene officers of higher station and claims, to the sxclusion of the Surveyor loneral, who may always be summoned to attend when information is required from hime. Sir Henry Pottinger did not see fit to appoint In bordow, though the Councils were still incomplete.
With six Engineer officers and ]
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considerable number of sappers
spot, and
my
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of sappers on the experience of the able, which their works are
conducted, Ishould recommend the
adoption of my advice ( as already to 52.3 takes offered to our Lordship) that all the
lovernment buildings required shouts be erected under the superintendence of the Ordnance department; and that the construction and pepair of Roads, the management of the Crown Lands and deases, and all the hirings of the Land office, except the erection of public buildings.
should be under the charge
"the Surveyor Ceneral] The present Establishment of a herveyor General forthout
of
any assistant and a Clock the works, would be sufficient for -
the purpose.
Comparing the duties of a
Surveyor
a