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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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TILLC.O. 882

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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Mr. L. Dupuy, Clerk-Service, 8 years; age, 30; pay, 601.

Keeps the check over the receipts of the Cashier and prepares, after examination of papers, the document on which the immigrants pay their industrial residence at the Internal

Revenues.

This young man is respectably connected; his brother, or cousin, is Magistrate at Seychelles he is intelligent and well educated, but he is a little wanting in energy. The Department and the work are not, I think, suited to him; he would do better in the judicial line, and would very soon be qualified for the situation of District Clerk.

Mr. Labarde, Clerk, employed in copying.-Service, 19 years; age, 49; pay, 120. Mr. L. is a steady, hardworking man; he has been many years in the service, and from his conduct deserves more promotion than he has had.

Mr. Loiseau, Clerk, employed in copying.—Service, 3 years; age, 23; pay, 481. This young man promises well, being intelligent and active; his pay is half what is paid in other departments.

Mr. St. Jean, Clerk, employed in copying.-Service (as volunteer), 2 years; age, 19; pay, 361.

Has been a short time in the office and appears to be assiduous, and likely to become good public servant; his pay is much below the work he is called upon to perform; it is less than what second-class guards get in the Police Department.

age,

Mr. Maclaughlin, Depot Keeper.-Service: Military, 30 years; Civil, 2 years; 46:

pay, 1201.

Has charge of the depôt; registers all immigrants returning to India, and prepares all the papers connected with their dispatch, which are considerable.

Mr. M. is a pensioned Serjeant in the army; his age and military habits are great qualifications for the office he holds: when the depôt has more than 1,200 people in it, I would wish him to be more in the yard; but the deficiency of the office is such that I cannot spare him from the desk. As he has more work and more responsibility than the jailor of Port Louis, and is paid much less, it would be but fair that both should be on the same footing.

I will make no remarks on the guards, as they are changing frequently, being underpaid in this department. When I get a sharp intelligent man as guard, in a short time he joins another, or he is sent by some planter to India as a recruiter.

I will close this report by stating that I understand the scale of salaries I have recom- mended a short time ago is much lower than that proposed by other heads of other depart- ments, and by expressing the hope that, if a general measure is adopted, the arduous duties of the subordinates of this department will have their full consideration, without reference to the inferiority of my recommendations. On inquiry, it will be found that they have always been in a very inferior position compared with those of other departments. Their zeal and honesty under such a discouragement make it a duty on my part to claim for them the same treatment as received by the others.

(Signed)

No. 18.-Port Department.

[By Captain Wales.]

T. H. HUGON, Protector of Immigrants.

Mr. E. Spencer, Harbour Master's Assistant.—Is charged with the whole of the out-door work, mooring and unmooring vessels, transporting them for repairs, &c., and has (subject to my orders) the whole of the pilots, engineers, and other officers, together with the men of the department, under his immediate control.

Mr. Spencer knows his duty perfectly well, and generally does it to my satisfaction; but I am sorry, for his sake, to observe that, from time to time, his sobriety may well be called in question, and I much fear this evil habit will result in his disgrace and dismissal from the service. Advice, in the plainest terins, has not been wanting on my part, but the propensity evidently grows on the man, and is making serious inroads on his health.

Mr. A. Latouch, Chief Clerk.-His duty is to collect all the Government dues, making accounts for the same; to prepare all the abstracts for the payment of the officers and men of the department, to write all the correspondence, and keep up the correspondence book, &c. Mr. Cartin, Boarding Officer.-Proceeds, in company with the Health Officer, on board all vessels that arrive in or off the port, takes the particulars of their respective voyages, assists in writing the reports for the different Government officers entitled to them, and, when he has leisure time (which is a rare occurrence), he aids in the currentduties of the office, under the orders of the Chief Clerk.

Mr. Bagulhac, Store Clerk.-Prepares the quarterly returns for steamers, the dredge, the port department, and lighthouses; prepares the different contractors' bills for payment, and the necessary authorities to accompany them to the Audit Office, and has charge of the issue of all stores, &c.

Mr. Martin, Second Clerk-Assists the Chief Clerk in the greater part of his duties,

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and keeps up the books of arrivals and departures; also the list of passengers arriving in the colony.

Mr. Agenor, Money Counter.—Is employed as most required for the public service. He is a poor creature, subject to frequent attacks of epilepsy, regular in attendance, and inoffensive in conduct, but will never be fit for advancement; in fact, though he does what he can, he is of no great value in his present post.

With regard to Messrs. Latouche, Cartin, and Bagulhac, I cannot speak too favour- ably. Respectful, obliging, capable, constant in attendance on their duties, it would be difficult to find in the whole colony young men more deserving encouragement.

Of Mr. Martin I am sorry to say I cannot speak in the same terms; he is both intelli- gent and capable, but his attendance at office so irregular, notwithstanding the numerous admonitions I have given him, that I am on the point of reporting him as unfit for the duties of this office, and requesting that (if possible) he may be transferred to some other department.

Mr. Coombes, Shipping Master.—Is a valuable Government servant. He ships and discharges seamen, ascertains whether passengers and vessels leaving the colony are en règle; is charged with the police of the wharf, &c. It would be almost presumptuous on my part to praise the conduct of an officer who has given every satisfaction to Government during upwards of thirty years' service.

Mr. William Harrison is Chief Engineer, and has charge of the dredging vessel and mud-boats: he is also charged with the surveillance of the steam-tugs.

Mr. Benjamin Harrison (his brother) is the Engineer of the steam-tug " Victoria." Mr. Hewett is Engineer of the steam-tug "Lord Fitzroy Somerset."

All three are excellent Fngineers, and, what is even more important, thoroughly sober inen, and most respectable in character and conduct.

J. Malcolm, Assistant Engineer of the Dredge;" N. Feillaffée, Assistant Engineer of the "Lord F. Some. set;" C. O'Toole, Assistant Engineer of the " Victoria," are sober, well- behaved, intelligent young men. Malcolm, in particular, is fit for the duty of engineer; the other two are not so advanced.

C. Ellis, Carpenter of the "Dredge;” J. Fulford, Carpenter of the Port Department; J. McIntyre, Carpenter of the "Victoria," are all good men and excellent tradesmen.

Mr. Stiggles, Master of the Quarantine Guard Vessel.-Is charged with the duty of boarding all vessels that arrive after sunset, too late to receive pratique, and should their answers be unsatisfactory in a sanitary point of view, of rowing guard till the Health Officer comes off; also of watching all vessels placed in quarantine at the Bell Buoy, and quarantine duties generally. His conduct has been satisfactory during the time he has been in the

Bervice.

Mr. Mc Kain, Mate in charge of the" Victoria," is a very steady, capable, well-behaved young man,

Mr. Leggat, Mate of the "Lord F. Somerset," has only been in the Government service a few days.

Mr. Lafosse, Mate of the "Dredge," is almost old enough to be superannuated, but does what he can.

Mr. Henri Lafosse, Mate and Boatswain of the Port Department, is a good and valuable officer. Under the Assistant Harbour Master, he has charge of the boats, buoys, &c., ship's lascars for the Department, the steamers "Dredge" and quarantine guard vessel; his conduct has always given me the greatest satisfaction.

Mr. Creed, the principal Light-keeper at Flat Island, understands his duty thoroughly, but is suspicious, quarrelsome, overbearing, and, I fear, not quite sober when opportu- nities to the contrary offer. No one can agree with him, and he has given me more trouble than all the rest of the department put together; latterly, however, he has been tolerably quiet.

Mr. Currie, the principal Light-keeper at Canonier Point, has always done his duty to

DOUGLAS WALES,

my entire satisfaction. His Assistant Light-keepers are well-conducted men.

(Signed)

No. 29.--Office of the Secretary to the Council.

[By R. Y. Cummins, Esq.]

Harbour Master,

A. Castellan, First Clerk-Salary, 1501.; approved ditto, 2004; service, 25 years. Duties: 1. Enters in the books proceedings of the Legislative and Executive Councils also the proceedings of the Executive Council, sitting as a Land Court.

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