trade, be sufficient to remunerate the Expense of its construction, & to provide for repairs & maintenance.
however
Refer these questions have hitherto restrained me from Entering more fully at this present moment. My dispatch of the 31st will have explained to you their rule in regard to
Public Works used in all other Colonial
Possessions, viz. that no Expenditure is to be incurred, except in Cases
of absolute necessity, until
plans and estimates have been sent home & approved by
Secretary of State.
As there seems no reason to suppose that the Works
suggested by Mr. Caine are of that immediately indispensable kind requiring such
approval before Entering upon any final decision regarding them.
the
usual formal manner
the Council of
Lenders
should, on further reflection, convince you of their utility.