CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3] — Page 113

:

amounted to the large

Aum

two thousand nine hundred

of

and eighty dollars, (about five #9980.

hundred and ninety six pounds £596. sterling),

1, or more than his

official salary.

dollars per

vir two thousand $2,000.

dunitw

(about four £400.

hundred pounds sterling).

5.

Since this return

of the

furnished, the use

Royal Arms and other official attestations has been discontinued, and the Colonial Surgeon and Health Officer claim that, as

any

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any duly qualified medical practitioner

Can

dre

• grant Bills of Health, they in a position exactly similar to that of any other practitioner

However, there can be

Colony:

in

the little doubt that the official status

of these two officers has enabled them to have the monopoly of these fees, for it is

alleged that the authorities at the different ...

-ports at which vessels call on their homeward voyage from this Colony, would not so accept Bills of Health not signed

readily

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