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"to place the Resident Engineer under the control of
"the Government alone and to relieve the Consulting
Engineers from further responsibility for the local
construction and to limit their functions to giving
"advice and assistance on such specific points as may
"from time to time be submitted to them".
It will be gathered from our previous remarks that
explained
in our opinion this paragraph originally and still expresses
the extent of our duties as Consulting Engineers for the
construction of the above railway, as was very clearly set
out in our letter accepting the appointment.
His Excellency further specifically refers to
paragraphs 11, 15 and 19 (c) of the memorandum of February
1006 in support of his contention and though our position
rests on the letter of our appointment it may be desirable
to refer to them.
Paragraph 11 while pointing out the undesirability
of interference with the Resident Engineer by Government
Officers in matters properly within the province of the
Consulting Engineers, proceeds to describe their duties almost
in the terms of our letter of January 25th 1906.
Paragraph 15 explains that the Government has under
the departmental system "the fullest measure of administrative
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