It receiving the Rates for a tenement return it as void with the concurrent testimony of a Police Officer.
The Plan proposed would also, which to me does not appear desirable, place the Accountant and his immediate subordinate upon the same footing as to their respective salaries.
Further I have to report that the present notice servers have hitherto given satisfaction and that I would hesitate to dispense with the services of either of them where they have acquired competent knowledge of localities and concluded their labours for the present quarter in sufficient time to be of material assistance in the preparing of notices for the next quarter, those notices being ready to be served beginning the 1st proximo.
What I experience as most urgently required at the Treasury to work satisfactorily its Police and Lighting Branch is the appointment of an additional Clerk well acquainted with the Books and modes of entry, who could at an instant's notice occupy temporarily the post of his senior (without materially...