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volved (D. Jordan draws only #200 a month) without any corresponding advantage, In
+ prepared
am not
to
recom-
in the
mend any change existing arrangement for the discharge of the duties
· of the Health Officer of the Port, and I may add as ad-
ditional reasons that D! ~
Jordan has performed the duties of his
office.
to my
entire satisfaction and to that of the shipping.
com-
munity
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munity; and that (as Dr. Ayres himself acknowledges in his letter to
you of the 7th August last) he has never permitted his private practice to prevent him from render_ ing gratuitous assistance to the Medical staff in an e- mergency.
III
That a
new assistant
the
Surgeon be engaged at the earliest possible date, on terms set forth in the en-
the dupli- closed paper of particulars,
cate.
in