In asking you to undertake this Duty I am well aware that it is merely adding additional work and responsibility to your already not light burden, and the force is the greater as I am not able to see how (as I saw the ease with Mr. Williams when he had during Mr. Felder's absence - of Superintendent of the Harbour Master's Department) you can derive remuneration from this increased labor, it is therefore merely in consequence of my knowledge of the interest you take in the Public Service, that I should propose dividing my half salary (being merely £300 per annum) between the two Gentlemen mentioned, viz., Messrs. Hyndman and Lombard.
I regret that the limited Salary of my office does not permit my suggesting any portion of it being granted to Mr. J. A. Carvalho, the Second Clerk, whom I beg to recommend to your favourable consideration, having found him a very zealous and able Assistant, and he will be the more useful the longer he remains in the Office.
As the Department will be reduced by my working hand, I deem it but just to recommend an Acting additional Clerk in the person of Mr. J. Neves, who has been working for some time for me, and whom I employed in the Office on account of the little assistance that could be afforded by the last two clerical blocks, Messrs. Conellate and Selby, and for whom I reserved the Salary. I received Marriage Registration; he is smart...
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