an estimate of all that are likely to be required the time for completing which he has extended to March 31st, 1847.
In this account are included
the Expenses of the Surveyor General's Department.
"Deducting for the sum total of dollars 827,438, as the amount of
eventual expenditure, the sums already noticed in these accounts, as incurred
on account of the Military, Naval and Superintendent Departments, there would remain Dollars 780,771, as the past and prospective cost of this Colony on account of Civil works.
Total dollar 827,438; Military 63,040
Naval 3,100
Superintendent 10,524
The schedule of Civil establishment inclosed in your Lordship's Despatch no.
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of 1844 authorizes a scale for the Surveyor General's Department, which would be abundant in a Colony ready formed.
The public works generally completed were 225.
formed, are of which the pressure however is so urgent in the first laying out of this island, under the heads of roads, drains, levellings and public buildings of every description, that a temporary addition becomes indispensable with a view to due expedition, and under the contingencies of sickness to which persons in this climate are exposed. It may therefore be found necessary to report some such addition hereafter.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect
Your Lordship's,
Most Obedient
Humble Servant.