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qualifications required no mention appears respecting

such a speciality as the cultivation of vaccine lymph

which in fairness to the applicant should certainly have

been included had it been the intention of the Colonial

Secretary that such work would comprise part of the

duties of the candidate selected to fill the post - or

otherwise an officer might and probably would have been

appointed who was totally ignorant of the subject.

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I therefore beg to be allowed to submit that when I

received my substantive appointment in 1887 the duties

of that office were clearly set forth vide attached

copy. It will be seen that these duties which were to

be performed under the Sanitary Board did not include

the cultivation of vaccine lymph which is a speciality,

and one upon which I have spent much time and money in

studying the process best adapted to a tropical climate,

In March 1892 I was appointed Superintendent of the

Government Vaccine Institute under the supervision of

the Colonial Surgeon, Head of the Medical Department,

since when I have performed the duties of that office,

in addition to those entailed by my substantive

appointment.

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It will thus be seen that the increase in my duties

did not arise from an extension of the jurisdiction of

the Sanitary Board or to an increase in the work of

the Department in which I held my substantive appointment

but that it arose from my being called upon to do work

in connection with another department.

I respectfully submit that officers holding

appointments in one department cannot reasonably be

called upon to permanently perform duties in two

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departments