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Marine Surveying, the partics interested may employ whom they please.
The amount of bovemment
work of this description performed
there is
very
small, consisting
No of Passenger Ships leaving
im.
1859. 35. 1860.
48.
1861. 37.
-
of the surveying of about 40 "Chinese Passenger Ships, and with the person
12 Ships or
Louchas obtaining Mitish or Colonial Registers
the Course of a year
work there
in
To do this
are at present three
Government Surveyors, Captain Deaton, Captain Mcharde, and Mo? Swaine, the Superintendant
of
of Her Majesty's Naval dock Hard-
mo
of Ships
Lorchas registered 1859. 4.
-
in.
1860.- D. 1861.-22.
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that the Bublic when they are compelled to employ Government Surveyou to do work over which the Government
must exercise
ample choice
a
control, have
of selection.
Saving informed Mr Bell
in reply to his application that the Government did not require his services, he then insisted upon the appointment
as
а
right,
urging that in the practice of his profession he
was placed
at a disadvantage in competing with other marine Surveyors, who held appointemente as Government Surveyo
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