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could do and after a few days received the formal offer of the apponitment from the Crown Agents.

I refer to this conversation. toshow the nature of the representations on which I accepted this appointment which Ishould not for a moment have thought of doing had I not

believed that it was intended that I should have entire authority in technical matters of my

profession.

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and I

I held at the tim

now thunk that the Agreement

which I signed should be considered

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binding

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for

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to devote myself for a certani sum

Government and

to the service of the Governm

not as

precluding any subsequent

: arrangements by which my services might be more effectively utilized

by the Government.

Iwill here make some

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observations.

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observations as to the nature of my work since I arrived in the Colony.

A

few days after my

7.

arrival the Surveyor General asked.

me to take up and complete the drawings of the Cntral Market

half finished condition.

then mi a

As I considered the

design capable of improvement I submitted rough pencil sketches and

made

suggestions

to which the

Surveyor General repied in all

cases that these matters could be

into subsequently

and that the

e gove

wished the drawings finished at

nice.

9.

Being anxious to make

quite clear the iniprovements which I thought could be made, and desivo also to save subsequent

delay I prepared drawings out of

ice hours (at the same time.

office

carrying out the Surveyor General's

mishuctions/

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