
          an unexpected difficulty will [?] us in the 
very threshold of the enterprise, for I do
not think I can reconcile it to my sense
of duty to give a full salary for an
entire year without some understanding
as to the time to be devoted to the
service of the state. I shall [added: be] extremely 
[crossed out: against] sorry if any stipulations which I
as a public agent, shall feel it my duty
to make on this point shall be deemed
so offensive as to deter [crossed out] qualified persons
from engaging in the public seervice.
But the stipilations which I feel myself [?]
on to make are not perhaps of such an
exceptionable character as you have 
imagined. I have [?] thought
of going into a rigid calculation of days
and weeks to be [?] by each of the
persons engaged in the survey but I must
insist [?] having an understanding [crossed out: with]  
with them as to the portions of each year 
        