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to the public to preclude him from giving his fellow citizens the benefit of his experience, where such a course would not interfere with the government duties being conscientiously fulfilled.

I = "The nature of his duties is such that after a few years, instead of being the most experienced, which a large and varied practice could alone make him, he would in reality be the least experienced of the medical men in the Colony.

A result scarcely for the advantage of the Government.

3. The high rate of House rent, provisions, make his salary altogether inadequate to his support, and instead of being better off than those private practitioners, he is actually in a worse position than the least successful, although the Office has hitherto been notoriously fatal to the holders, who should therefore be well paid.

4. The restriction is altogether a new one, of which the present incumbent was quite unconscious until after his appointment; nor was it found, as far as he is aware, advantageous to the Colony, in the case of his predecessors.

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