Note 54 — APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XVI.

“June 8th, 1848.—I frequently detect some strange misuse of terms which has become habitual in the office—e.g., many clerks have applied for, and received, a fortnight’s holiday; but I accidentally discovered the other day that one to whom I had granted the indulgence stayed away fourteen working days, and, on inquiry, I found that such was the interpretation invariably put on the term. In my own department I, of course, have put an end to this.”—Sir R. Hill’s Journal.—Ed.