Colony shall pay its now future Expences, and likewise, that the sito
- proposed for the Military Hospital is not within the ground which was allotted for Cantonments and which allotment has been approved and sanctioned by recent despatches.
In connection with the preceding remarks it is almost superfluous to add, that by far the most valuable part of the Crown Lands in this Colony, which are those washed by the Harbour, consequently are peculiarly adapted for mercantile purposes, that by assigning them to other purposes the Revenue of the Stand must be exactly lessened in the proportion that they are to be allotted.
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The Governor is however, fully sensible that the health and comfort of the Troops is, and always must be a primary consideration, and he would have refrained from pointing out the above drawbacks which he sees to the plan proposed in your letter, had his personal observation led him to admit the principle on which the site for the Hospital has been selected, but when he looks to the undeniable facts that the localities in this Colony suffered to an equal degree with all others during the sickly period of last season, that intelligence from every part of Asia leads to the belief, that the year was particularly unhealthy - that the crews of Her Majesty's Ships and the merchant vessels,