Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 474)

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I am Secretary & Treas. (for illustration,)
& I often collect information which I cannot
by the law compelled to do, but I regard that
as the property of the Corporation & not my pri-
vate property. I do not see why a Corpor-
ation surveyor's work that is paid for
wholly by the Corporation, should not be the
Corporation's property.

In this light, you should, perhaps,
transfer the books to the Corporation, without
further pecuniary consideration. Still if you
view the matter in a different light, please
state, at what price you will make the
transfer. You may perhaps, remember that
when, after your first survey under a con-
tract for $750, you were paid as a matter
of equity about double that view. The
Corporation & you have been good neighbors, &
I trust that good feeling may continue. I
have upheld your side of the question, when
I confess, in some cases it has been hard for
me to do so, owing to the inconvenience suf-
fered through frequent changes, irrespon-
sible assistants.

I need not say, of cause, that your
employees, will have the same access to the
notes as heretofore, with the foregoing limitations,
if you see fit to transfer them.