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however in its tum, with the consent of the Duke
of Buckingham, withdrawn by Governor MasDemell and substituted by fees of
cert upon the sale of brown
one
per
lands, a change which led indirectly
the eventual retirement of the then holder of the post owing
to there being
in this small and mountainous island. no rural Crown Lands to sell, and to
the fact that nearly the whole of the -valuable building lots in town had been at that time already disposed of:
5.
Owing to the extraordinary
Colony has been
developement which the Colony.
undergoing in recent
years,
and to the
greatly increased work and responsibility thrown upon the Public Works Department
and looking
to the standard of remuneration
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to Civil Engineers in public or private employ
which obtains in India and China, my predecessor represented to- the Earl of Carnarvon in 1876 the justice of increasing the Surveyor Generale
to L1500 and His Lordship beinoz
pay
subsequently pleased to adjust that
the Legislative
at £1200
passed
a
year,
a unanimous resolution.
paz
Council
respectfully inviting His Lordship's - reconsideration of the matter and his
acquiessence in the policy of raising
the
salary to the £1500 originally recommended by Sir Arthur Mennedy.
6.
I have ascertained that in
this resolution the
Legislative Council