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with Mr Severn as fantastic. Mr Clementi began by saying that I had not proposed a verification of the Volumes but only of the Revision Ordinances. What he meant I have not the faintest notion, and I doubt whether he has any himself, How the Revision Ordinances could be veri- fied except with the Volumes which were then two-thirds printed I can- not imagine; certainly the Attorney General could have enlightened Mr. wementi on the subject as he was frequently in my room and had seen the work grow. Apparently Mr Clementi has no idea that work of so con- siderable a nature has to be printed off as it goes on; and as Mr Se- vern murmured something about "supposing I meant galley-proofs", it would seen that these two gentlemen imagine that a printer keep/1600 of 2000 pages of type standing at the same time, and that a book is turned out by the press after the whole of the proofs have been cor- rected. I cannot be supposed to know that officers of the fovernment lack the elementary knowledge of the subject with which they are dea- ling. The Volumes, (omitting the Merchant Shipping Brdinance) were ready at that time up to the end I think of 1903, and it was time to begin the verification, which is obviously a most important thing in an elaborate revision like the one I have been engaged upon. If that verification had then been done as it ought to have been done the errors which have been discovered now would have been discovered then and immediately put dtraight.

The result of the refusal to help was that I had to do the verifica- tion single-handed, and it took fully six months. I then discovered to my great annoyance that the pages were very faulty, that there were omissions in the text, that the typography was often wrong, and that the essentially printer's work had been very carelessly done. In addi- tion to the re-printing which had to be done in consequence of Govern- ment amendments I had over 550 pages re-printed, every error that I then discovered being corrected, except trifling printer's errors, Those which are corrected in the Corrigenda were for the most part discovered afterwards. The worry and anoyance at finding so many mistakes was nggupao aggravated by the fact that the printers began to rebel. Their

own work for the fovernment and other clients was getting into arrear, and with each batch of pages marked "to reprint" which I sent over there came grumbles and the question "would it never end?". No one

will imagine that I desired to give the fovernment anything but a

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