I am now soliciting from the Secretary of State; by submitting that in the last ten years my duties have multiplied more than fourfold with the extraordinary development of this rapidly growing Colony, and that the Sanitary Board, an entirely new Department of Government of greater importance even than that of Public Works, and involving very largely extended cares and responsibilities, has been placed under my management without any remuneration, although it is the rule of the Government to accord some increase of salary when an officer's duties are very largely added to.
I venture to hope that my application will, as a mere matter of equity, meet the favourable consideration of the Government, and that His Excellency the Administrator, and also His Excellency W. M. Secretary of State for the Colonies will be equally pleased to give it their support.
I have to state that J. M. Price, Surveyor General.
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24th November, 1882.
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