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The Rolling Magistrate of Police having made complaint of a letter addressed to him by you yesterday, His Excellency The Governor directs that in future the application for summons against those offending under the Building Ordinance be made personally either by yourself or by some one deputed by you.
Mr. Poll is well qualified to undertake a duty of this nature.
No8534
I have, &c.
(Signed) W. Mercer
Colonial Secretary
The Same to the same.
26th July, 1856
In reply to your letter of yesterday, I have to point out to you that both that letter and the one of the 22nd inst. to which it refers proceed on the erroneous and improper assumption that your frequent representations of the difficulties you experience in carrying out the recent building regulations receive no consideration from His Excellency the Governor.
Unfortunately they occupy but too large a portion of His Excellency's time and the labor of this Office; and the mode of dealing with your communications is much complicated by the singular and sometimes un becoming style in which they are phrased.
see Page 14.
On a recent occasion (See your letter No.30 of the 7th inst.) language was used by you which should not find place in an Official letter, and in your letter of 22 July the statement at least is made "which if it were brought to the notice of those concerned would, by Capt. C., elicit a peremptory denial and is at any rate incapable of the requisite proof and therefore needless for all practical purposes."
His Excellency thinks it right to inform you that grievous complaints are in like manner made against your own conduct and that of your Department, but without due and careful examination it is impossible for His Excellency to arrive at a just conclusion, or to blame or acquit any one public Officer rather than another.
Such examination His Excellency has directed to be instituted, and it is his desire that you await the result, carrying on your duties in the meantime as efficiently and as discreetly as possible and divesting yourself of the idea you seem to entertain that the Surveyor General's Department is the only branch of the Government subjected to obstruction and annoyance in the performance of the duties entrusted to it.
I have, &c.
(Signed) W. Mercer.
Colonial Secretary