CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 70

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a few observations on the general subject.

I have long come to the conclusion that the permission_

in a Colony like this - granted

to

to

any public functionary be engaged in and to derive

pecuniary benefit from private professional practice is nexesarily compromising and disparaging to himself and injurious to Her Majesty's

Servier

The Attorney General - the Surveyor General, and the Colonial Surgeon have been allowed this privilege

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case

of

the tivo

(though in the

last named functionaries the privilege has been lately withdrawn).

and in the

embarrassing position in which I was placed by Mr. Mercer's departure I had to consider whether the fact

£= Bridges being

y

practising barrister (in

respects

an advant

Governor),

a

some

entage to the

was sufficient to

counterbalance his m

claims to

many

my confidence, - these claims earnestly

advocated by Mr. Mercer who

was on terms.

of great