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allowances, a sum of $480 not as ...

salary, but as an allowan

nee

for

the

special work to be performed by him as Municipal Assessor. The Governor would thus have it in his power to select from the three Clerks of Works the one who appeared best fitted for this duty, and of removing him at the end of the year and appointing another Clerk

of Works, in case he had

in case he had disappointed

- the expectation formed of him. In this latter case the Assessor.

back to his duties in

would go

the Public Works Department.

4.

been now.

M. Howroyd, who has two and a half years

in

this Colony, has been suggested as

a proper person to act as Assessor, provided

some one else were

appointed to relieve him of his duties in the Public Works Department; — an absolute necessity

now

that

this Department has such extensive

Sanitary But as Mr. Howroyd has latterly been

and other works in hand.

may

in indifferent health, and he - possibly not be able to undertake

the

this