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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
latterly; he is very steady, very willing and obliging but, cannot be expected to possess the scientific knowledge necessary to constitute him a witness to be depended upon in case of a dispute.
The remaining Officers Department, Mr. Power
of the
and Mr Scott, I cannot speak too highly of, and indeed c. deem it unnecessary to do so afterbexpressed opinions of the Surveyor "General himself, who, from. a longer acquaintance with their merits is in a position, to appreciate them po much
better.
I feel it to be my duty. to add that the department
hould have the assistance
of a firstpater Shaughtman's who from the Surveyor's General's Sketches, would
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be competent to make booth General and
and Working Drawings, as I find that there to quite enough to occupy the time of ther surveyor General himself in those every day duties which his Title indicates, namely the general superintendence of the Department which, in a Colony, presides
over
Covernment Works, Roads,
Lewers, Woodsand Forests and even Burial Grounds; and to these have been superadded this year the Entroul of all Buildings and the abatement of all Arisances . The droughting of the correspondencalone, including Reports and Estimates imposes
simposes a very considerable taxe on his
official hours so as almost to preclude the possibility