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10. Such a blunder therefore as that

· committed by the original Licensees in engaging to pay a salary of $20,000

-year to Mc baldwell or

one

ne

any one

as then feneral agent is not likely to

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now

for

else

again because the Licensees have

discovered to their cost,

neciparily that respite of such payments they fobliged to be thin

#transact then

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www

Agents and

were

-business direct with

the Government, and I submit that such

a

policy

was at first the

best which

very

certain fixed conditions, I do not at this

to think it might

moment see

any

reason

not hereafter be usefully adopted as the basis of a safe permanent system, the details of which, however, would require to be carefully filled up after much firther consideration and experience. 12. It is therefore very fortunate

rate under

all circumstances that the worthing of the

present anangements is so

there is no prospect of

satisfactory, that

prospect of any immediate change

being required

and

therefore that there is

leisure for reflection. The Natums which I have transmitted in

my

despatch No

664

664

by

this Mail m

could have been devised to prevent

misconception.

11.

M. In

In

reference however to the other

method suggested by His Gpace namely I distributing Licenses by lot subject to

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may be regarded as

favorable to this view, for they prove

least the great excertions which are being

at

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