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£1000 per annum, as the supervision of works throughout the Colony must necessarily be undertaken out of office hours. He also entails much risk from exposure to the sun and weather, and in a manner the other Heads of Departments are not required to do.
The expenditure on Public Works has increased from $100,000 and $200,100 in 1880 and 1881 respectively to $314,000 and $349,000 in 1864 and 1873. While the amount of correspondence sent out of this office has increased from 107 letters in 1880 to 483 in 1875.
It is undeniable that the duties of the Surveyor General, if properly performed, are sufficiently arduous and I trust that His Excellency the Governor will be pleased to give my application due...