
          is allowed to  [added: another] who is a part o the year,
engaged in lecturing at a college or preparing
works for publication because his ability to
serve the state is less than that of the others.
The invidiousness of an attempt to make such
distinctions and the impracticability of applying
such a standard of compensation correctly
in most cases [added: would] equally condemn a resort to it.
Such a mode of fixing the salaries of
public agents would be an anomaly.
Judges and other officers of the same grade  
receive the same compensation though in
general estimation some may be much
superior in point of intellect and acquirements
to others. Equality of compensation without
something like equality as to time of employment
would [added: not] be submitted to. If therefore
gentlemen [crossed out: as you intimate] who are
qualified to execute the survey in a proper
manner refuse, as you intimate they
will, to be "[?] [?] as regard
the time they must spend in their labours"

        