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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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

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