CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6] — Page 523

of the 13 June covering the Corresponden received.

I was still an open one upon which the Secretary of State had arrived at no decision.

I regret to be compelled to say that Dr. Murray's conduct upon his arrival here appears to me to have been most disingenuous. He withheld from the Local Government the correspondence which had passed between himself and Your Grace's Department; he concealed the explicit, defined terms upon which the office had been conferred on him by the Secretary of State, and he appears to have at once mooted the question as to his being allowed private practice, leaving Sir J. Bowring, as appears from his Dispatch written at the time, under the erroneous impression that the question of private practice was still open.

9. Sir J. Bowring being thus in entire ignorance of the facts that the salary had been fixed by the Secretary of State at £800 a year "without other emoluments or Allowances" and that private practice had been strictly forbidden, appointed Dr. Murray upon the following conditions which have since then remained in force. He was allowed £800 a year for attending the Jail, Police, Civil Hospital, and subordinate Government Officials, £180 a year for attending the Lock Hospital, established under the Brothel Ordinance No. 12 of 1837, by which funds are provided for the maintenance of the Institution and the payment of a surgeon.

A65 of 11 April 1839 to Secretary of State.

Sir I. Bowring to Secretary of State