Dollars, on account of houses for Civil Officers, at once reduces the presumed amount from $718,000 to $30,000 Dollars. My own present residence (lately the Land Office) is quite commodious enough to enable me to dispense with another one, until orders shall be received from home for its erection; but the actual condition of the temporary public offices, always frail and unsubstantial, may probably render necessary the commencement of permanent ones at an early period. I have already addressed Your Lordship on the subject of a Church. Mr. Stanton has been unable ever since his arrival to perform his clerical duties or to render any Service of any kind in the Ecclesiastical Department. A Committee had been formed previous to my arrival for the erection of a public place of worship by the Community, with the aid of Her Majesty's Government. Having had previous intimation from Your Lordship that two thirds of the expense might be borne by Government, I caused the enclosed letter to be written, promising an aid to the extent of £6,000, supposing the Church to cost £9,000 according to the Estimate; but that the proposed grant should not be exceeded under any circumstances.
I considered myself justified in doing so, by the consideration that while the Roman Catholics and Dissenters already possessed handsome and commodious places of worship, the English Protestants ought no longer defer the commencement of theirs.
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