CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 257

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Mr Brewer's

it causes, amounts to

A.,

conduct

grave official and public scandal, is calculated to Repeat the beneficial purposes of the Ordinance, and to lead to corruption

and abure.

8. _ We very respectfully therefore

venture to pray your

Mr Brewer

may

Lordship

that in the future be

directed not to receive fres for his

tun usar

for surveys

description, under

оч

orv

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ord

chips of any

circumstance

any

any pretent whatever.

We have the honor to be

Your

My Lord

most obedient servants

Burnie

Actz Surveyor to Lloyds Register of British.

Foreign Shipping & Local Insurance offices

tu leur do

Surveyor for Veritas & Local Insurance Offices

John Angles P., S. R.

Sengineer Surveyor

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and

Dong forg

253

2nd November 1887

RECO

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3616

REGE 28 FEB 82/

We the undersigned Marine.

Engineer Surveyors at this Port

beg leave to call the attention, His Excellency the Governor to the

Mr John

circumstance that me

Government lurveyor

$ Brewer,

under the

Merchant Shipping Consolidation, Ordinance 1879, undertakes surveys

and receives

prescribed

by

مسون

other than those

the Ordinance. A Surveyor

who has the statues and

power

which

Government employ confers upon

مند

at an immen

placed at an

him,

advantage

in obtaining private Surveys, all other Surveyors, and his being permitted to take such surveys affects "adversely the business of those who

have

only

to rely

ther

private practice

on. The fact also that the

person who is paid by a shipowner

to

superintend

his

private work, has

Hoon. M. J. Jonnochy

Acting Colonial heretary

to

in many

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