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charges against Officers of the Public. Works Department.

2.

After due enquiry

I am unable

to discover an

any just ground for Mess's Wilson and Salway's complaint -

3.

Mr Price's report upon Messrs be pages 5 6530

Wilson & Salway's communication and the

of Nivelnure.

correspondence appended (copies of which in pays31 bis

are

of

enclosed) give

an accurate statement

"the extent to which the Surveyor General's Assistants have been permitted to render professional service to their.... personal friends, and as upon such ___ occasions it is always stipulated that

only

be

given out of office hours, I would not .____ :recommend the disallowance of these

the assistance shall

of Enclosure

wie R. MacDonnell's espatch N.194.

944 of

September, 1866.

rare and trivial concessions which cannot abuse under the present

develope into

restrictions.

4.

any

With regard to the Surveyor.

General's private practice, I perceive that

the question

already before the Secretary

Avas

of State in 1864. The

full

emoluments

of the post appear originally to have been and private practice, £200-

£1200

a

year

being paid from Imperial funds for the

the

in

Avas

supervision of the Consular buildings

outports. This allowance of £300 however withdrawn by the Foreign Office in 1866 the emoluments being reduced to £1000 and the privilege of private._._._.

- praatice worth, at the lowest calculation

as much

The latter privilege again.

was