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Excellency's

anival.

52. Since then his management of the

expenditure

om

Public Work's had been

So musatisfactory that His Excellency

aud

the Auditor General had been

endeavoring

to devise new

checks and

he

Could not

be trusted

even

with

some

details of

This duty

under the Building Ordinance.

So much so that His Ex

that His Exaltensy had to

add to his alre

already

onerous duties that

f of superintending all concessions for Piazzas to t

as

it

was not safe to leave with the

Surveyor General any

beecutive Authority

which could be taken from him.

of

53. It was decidedly of His Excellency to

¡prevent the Surveyor General or any head of a Department from driving

other

out

of it useful

men

by aggravating

conduct.

In the present case the bouncil saw that the Surveyor General had sought to

hold beveral offices, and when a

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тинг

Gentleman of Capacity

found to file thase which the Suneyor General neuen ought to have held, if the Contingency

could have been avoided, the bouncil

Saw that Mr Wilson had insisted on

that

quitleman

working extrae

hours to do what he himself had of undertaken in connection with all his

ordinary

duties. Altogether in these matters about which there was no room

for doubt

or contradition M. Wilson had shewn

very improper forgetfulnes of the Public interests in his greed for office.