CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4] — Page 359

Maretary stating that Mr. Brewer continued to take private practice to the prejudice of our interests and requesting that if the circumstances of the

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necessito ted

a reference to your Lordship m Brewer might in the meantime b. prohibited from holding private

surveys.

This letter remains.

unanswered. Copies of the correspondence

are

isclosed for

your Lordship's informations.

5. We are

in possession of

complete proof, whist, we have

all

along

before had

been prepared to lay His Excelliney the Governor

we been

called

one to do 20,

that mṛ Brawer is in the

constant habit of taking fus sometimes to a large amount for

not only surveys. practitioner but in cons

beer

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a Jesural

in

one

which, he has bur employed in his official capacity. In instance for private surveys steamer called the Wailoong.

which

Come

an

also under his

Official survey, it is within our Knowledge that he demanded and received a fee amounting to $200. In fact Mr Brewer

my Brewer does not care to

deny that he received such fees

and

we

have

wen

been informed

that he defends his action, on the

ground

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ground that he has received direct permission from.

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Governor

Bonto do

Excellency

the

b. That mr Brewer's conduct in

this matter is in direct contravention

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of the rules of the

the service to which,

he belongs, admits

of

no

we

apprehend

doubt; and we believe it to

be equally clear that he has subjected himself to the

penalty imposed by subsection ") of Section of the ordinance which provides that "Every Surveyor who demands or receives "directly indirectly from

"agent

the

or Marlia of any ship surveyed him under the provisions of this "Ordinance.

by him an der from any

Pany fee

"for

or m

or

other

persons

or remuneration, whatsoever.

respect of mat, survey.

"shall incur a penalty

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exceeding

"two hundred and fifty dollars.

We have hitherto been unwilling

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solely

out

of consideration for Mr Brewer to resort to legal proceedings to enforce

this

penalty, believing indeed that we had only to bring mr. Brewer's action to His Excellency's notice, for it to be stopped. up

stopped. Up to the

present time however His Excellency has apparently inseed no order in the matter, for

of

reasons which, in view

His Excellency's silence,

tuen

we cannot-

surmise. For apart from the

injury to

our

private interests which

it cours

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