Secretary stating
that mi
Brewvers
continued to take private practice
prejudice of
to the
and requesting circumstances of the
Q.
reference
to
очень
that
interests
if the
case necessitated
your Lordship my
Brewer might in the meantime be prohibited from holding private surveys. This letter
remains
unanswered. Copies of the correspondence
އ
enclosed for
your Lordship's information.
3.
We are
in possession of
complete proof, whist,
re
have
to lay
all along been prepared, before His Excelliney the Governor
had we been called one that my Brewer is
to do
in the
20,
constant habit of taking fees sometimes to a large amount for
not only surveys. practitioner but in
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که بار مسیح
general
Casrs
irs
which he has been employed his official capacity. In
one
in
instance for private surveys on a steamer called the "Bailoong "
also under his
whist
came
it is withir
Official survey, Knowledge that he demanded, and received a fu amounting to $2.00._ In fact Mr. Briver does not care to ding that he received must fees
and we have
ever been informed that he defends his action on the ground
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that he has received direct
ground permissions from. W is Excellency the Governor
soto do.
f. That mr. Brewer's conduct in this matter is in direct contravention
of the rules of the service to whict he belongs, admits
of
gro
apprehend
double; and we believe it to
that he has
For equally clear
subjected himself to the penalty
السب
imposed by subsections) of section V of
provides
the Ordinance which
that
"Every Surveyor who demands or receives directly indirially from the owner, "agent"
or master of any ship surveyed
" by him under the provisions of this
"Ordinance, "any fee
for
or in
o
from any
other persons
or remuneration whatsower
respect of such survey, not weeding
"shall incur a penally
"
"Two hundred and fifty dollars."
We have hitherto been unwilling 7.-
solely
out
of
-consideration for
~for Mr. Brewer, to resort to legal proceedings to infores
this
penalty, believing indeed, that we had only
to bring Mr Brewer's action, to "His Excellency's notice, for
it to be stopped. Up to the present time however, His Excellency
has
apparently issued
Mo
order in the
matter for reasons which in view
His Excellency's silence, we cannot even surmise. For apart from
of
injury
to
ow
the
private interests which
it causes