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the full pay of the appointment. This will be always the case, I apprehend, as regards the junior appointments of the Government, and I may mention an instance which occurred in another Department. On Your Lordship's receiving Telegraphic Instructions to send home certain Statistics relating to the Water Supply I was compelled, owing to the weakness of the Staff of the Survey Department to request the Major General Commanding to lend me a Subaltern of the Engineers for 14 days. For his services I offered the usual honorarium of one guinea per diem, but it was not a sufficient inducement, and the Acting Surveyor General had to delay some important works in order to collect the information called for by Your Lordships.
In cases of emergency, therefore, this Government at this distance from England is necessarily obliged to depart from the letter of the Colonial Regulation. To adhere strictly to it would, as proved during the changes at the Hospital, have left important posts unattended.
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