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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO | BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE
PUBLIC
RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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of preparing even sketches; for since I have had the honor to fill the office have not only given almost the
hole of my own time but also, occasionally that of two drawing Clerks.
I do not mention, this to enhance at all the value
own services or to
of my prelude any claim for my Clerks time, for undertook when Jaccepted Office, that. the duties should be efficiently performed, but only to point out to His Excellency that the Department is, even now that a Clerk of Works is added to it, under-officered and it is, I think, of infinite importance to Government that all Plans, Sections,
Elevations and Detail ens Drawings and all Greafications and Estimates should be as
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they
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perfect documents as possibly can be made ; but the haste in which these are
recessarily sent through my hands tends to impair their ultimate, utility in case of legal proceedings ever being instituted by which any of them would be required to be produced in Court.
I have, to:
(Signed) Thor & Walker,
Acting Surveyor General.
(True Copy)
M.P. Bridges.
Acting Colonial Secretary.