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I can quite believe the fact, but I think M. Bell is confusing between cause and effect. The Government appoint to do it's work the Marine Surveyors of most standing, and of proved ability and fituese. The Public
who
are equally fice to make
their selection cuploy
not because they
are
these men, Government
Surveyors but because they happen to concur with the Government in considering them the fittest
If the Government
Anen -
to appoint
a
bad
man,
the
were
Public would not follow suit in employing him.
The
position taken up by Mr Bell in this malter
appears
to me to be not only untenable, but preposterous. He denies to the Crown the right, enjoyed by
every private individual, to select whom it pleases to transact its own
business,
on the plea that persons es
selected
more
are
as
so
regards prestige
favourably circumstanced their profession
in the exercise
exercise of
than others - a principle which,
if extended to other professions
and trades than that
Surveyor, would give
Marine
of m
us
here
5 Crown Law Officers, 7 Colonial