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render it impossible for me to perform
the duties of Wreck Receiver of the district
without having a Deputy at each of those
places - I cannot leave the important
business I have to attend to at Hull - to
proceed to a place on the Coast or to
Bridlington in cases of small matters of
wreck - or distress of ships. - I have therefore
conferred with Captain Metcalfe, - the Inspecting
Commander of the Coast Guard at Bridlington
and Lieutenant Shacklock the Lieutenant
at that station - and with Lieutenant Stewart
of the Coast Guard Station at Hornsea -
from all of whom I have received the
most courteous attention - and the
readiest assistance in their power -
in the discharge of my wreck duties. - on the
subject of becoming my Deputy as explained
in your preceeding order - and they are
unanimous in opinion that being my
deputy Receiver of wreck would be incompatible
with their duties as officers of the Coast Guard
one great obstacle being that by a rule of
their department all correspondence
from them must pass through the office
of the Controller General of the Coast Guard
such a course would no doubt be
extremely inconvenient in a correspondence
on questions almost purely mercantile in
their character - I therefore beg to be allowed
to name a civilian at each of the places
mentioned - or - probably what would
be a better course- that I be entirely
relieved from the performance of the
duty - and that the Inspecting Commander
of the Coast Guard at Bridlington for the time
being - be appointed Receiver of Wreck for the
district in my [room?] - when there would

render it impossible for me to perform the duties of Wreck Receiver of the district without having a Deputy at each of those places - I cannot leave the important business I have to attend to at Hull - to proceed to a place on the Coast or to Bridlington in cases of small matters of wreck - or distress of ships. - I have therefore conferred with Captain Metcalfe, - the Inspecting Commander of the Coast Guard at Bridlington and Lieutenant Shacklock the Lieutenant at that station - and with Lieutenant Stewart of the Coast Guard Station at Hornsea - from all of whoom I have received the most courteous attention - and the readiest assistance in their power - in the discharge of my wreck duties. - on the subject of becoming my Deputy as explained in your preceeding order - and they are unanimous in opinion that being my deputy Receiver of wreck would be incompatible with their duties as officers of the Coast Guard one great obstacle being that by a [?] of their department all correspondence from them must pass through the office of the Controller General of the Coast Guard such a course would no doubt be extremely inconvenient in a correspondence on questions almost purely mercantile in their character - I therefore beg to be allowed to name a civilian at each of the places mentioned - or - probably [?] would be a better course- that I be entirely relieved from the performance of the duty - and that the Inspecting Commander of the Coast Guard at Bridlington for the time being - be appointed Receiver of Wreck for the district in my [?] - when there would