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Lord Palmerston
I am disposed to go
A
little farther
1. for Merivale in refusing to public servants permission to seek elsewhere for employment. There
are some reasons
Which justify a relaxation
of strict rule.
1. regard to the learned professions, and this relaxation benefits the public by securing
the services
of more able men
than limit however
265° not go
& I would
principle
Beyond
Katrin,
Lord John Russell, Mr. P.
Governor is Sir John Bowring
83rd Feb, 1855-
/ Inclosure.
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Received
Government officers
Relative to Free trade:-
adhere to the date that the public is entitled to the entire time of its servants subject only to provision for the health which is essential
to full efficiency 1") and therefore refuse permission to the Surveyor General to
Engage
in private practice
2 I need say nothing about the Harbour Master I I would point out that the rule is already established that exceptions should be made only under very peculiar circumstances and who is the best judge
A
2
I concur with Mr Merivale
as to Sir J. Bowring's 10th Paragraph. I support
it as Mr Merivale thinks it better to leave the subject in Sir J. B's hands & I am ready to
but I think it acquiesce in that course
7.83
honor
+
inconvenient that the "should go so
for without
Communicating fully the grounds of his statement
accordingly. I state that as
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Share to acknowledge
you
the receipt of your Despatch
124 of the d of August last sie which you request
instructions on
fonts
various
su Connection
with a recent
Commission
which you appointed to
enquire whether certain abuses alleged to exist in the various Departments of Government From the absence of the
Report of the Commissioners
ich you refer and
to which
the touch of more precise