- should not be brought gradually to reach the- Annual amount of £30,000, and when the
Public Works incidental to a new
Colony shall
have been completed a judicious retrenchment-,
as opportunities occur, may
without affecting the
officiency of the Civil Retablishments, reduce them
to a
charge
not very meech exceeding the above sum.. I would suggest that as the required.
Public buildings
are to be erceted by the Ordnance-
Department, the Office of Surveyor General be
reduced to a Colonial. Surveyor,
lower Salary, without a
without a Deputy..
Thy
on a
somewhat
at the same time to add that I
have abolished the office of Clerk under the Clerk of
Councils, which was authorized at £260 per annum.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
With the highest respect, Your most Obedient
Humble Servant, dani
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