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Reason

advantage to my own interests have acked Your Excellency to afford mo the opportunity of this long of next to regain my strength, but that my health is now too seriously impaired to wamant the hope that I shall ever again be able to stand the long hours of work ound the severe strain of the duties of my office,

I regret my enforced retinement the more that Your Excellency, has at this juurchine so many large

works and

projects in contemplation and which I had hoped it would have been

to a

lot to bring to

under

your

my

onccesful realization instructions, but I can no

longer remain deaf to the warnings of medical adineers, and Irecognize moncover that I have

my

right to

Contine at a

post

to which I can

tro

longer do justice.

on due course I will obtain and

the medical certificate me to tender my resignation,

bmit

obliges

which

but

Douc

anticipation

but I do unyself the honour of addressing Your Excellency with because it may be for the convenience, of the Service that ample time should

be given for the selection Officer to succeed me.

of a

suitable

As Your Excellency has ___

expressed

ol

wish to have.

my

asto

views

oncovor, I would submit the

a.

desirability of obtaining Surveyor General from home or from

some other Colony. a Civil Engineer. least 35 or 40 years of age

He should be both

and architect, at

ample experience.

I would further

of

and with

both professions .

recommend that

Mr Bowdler, the present Assistent Surveyor General ; be seconded from the Departinent for special duty in connexion with the proposed Praya Reclamations which will take at least five years to complete,

at the end

retire

of which time he will rotors,

and