substitute for
him, had his_
services been lost to the
Government.
7.
It happens,
moreover;
that Mr Shepherd's special Knowledge of the Land-tittes
will be of peculiar value
in connection with the
measure
I have in contemplation
for introducing a system of Registration annalogous
that of
8.
to
the Torrens Land Act
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will now receive, if Your - V Lordship sanctions the
proposed increase; and, since he declined acceptance, has proved sufficient temptation to cause the resignation of -
another
officer,
Mr Shelton
Hooper, whose emoluments were
considerably larger than those of Mr. Shepherd, (though
his service can be better
spared