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department; and the greater part of the advantages derivable from
amalgamation fall to the ground. The Head of the Department
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must either become a mere post office, for the transmission of
documents, or tiwre will be endless friction and division of
responsibility.
him.
Then if
If the special Engineer is under the absolute
control of the Head of the Department; he will be almost certain-
ly entrusted with work other than his speciality.
anything goes wrong there will be division of responsibility.
The subordinate will say that he has not been able to attend to
his proper work, on account of the extra duties imposed up on
If the special officer be practically independent, thon
the only possible advantage,to be derived from his subordina
tion to the Surveyor General may be some slight simplificat
in matters of accoluits, The special officer must have his
special staff and he mist have direct access to, and directio
of, the special stores required for the Works under
He and his staff mist not be liable to employment
than his speciality. I may add that cases of t
which a special officer, engaged for a definite purt
been employed on other works, have occurred to my know
with great detriment to the mity for which he was emplo
As a matter of principle, contralisation of
of the duties, connected with Public Works, in one dop
is desirable and conducive to economy; provided always
Head of that department is conversant with, and capable of a
directing, every branch thereof. If, on the other and, ther
be any branch of the department with which the head thereof
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