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despatch "Confidential" of the 7th April, 1870, I had the honour to represent to Your Lordship the unsatisfactory condition of the Survey Department at that time, and although I did not feel called on to prefer charges against Mr Moorson with a view to his suspension by the Executive Council, I did take occasion to reprimand him before the Council in the hope that, if capacity be in him, he might thereby be spurred on to some exertions producing better fruits.
Confidential.
7th April 1870.
2. The reply of Earl Granville to my despatch informs me, however, that I adopted a course, which was inexpedient and calculated to cause unnecessary pain by "reprimanding an Officer of high standing in the presence of members of those Officials who are with whom "The man constantly be brought into "contact in the performance of his duties".
3. If that view is to prevail, it is difficult to understand how a Governor can impose on him the duty of consulting his Executive Council frequently as possible: a duty I have always endeavoured to carry out thoroughly by making the members of that Council as conversant as I could with all the details and objects of local Government, and all correspondence