Especially this explanation of the causes
causes of delay
in the Surveyor General's Office - Should be glad to receive you
on all such
at some future time-
Meanwhile-
but Should, of course, not withhold your report on the state of public building accounts.
I have received your letter of the 13th and 15th instant suggesting the manner in which the inconvenience arising from the want of a person capable of preparing plans for the public Buildings might be overcome.
It has appeared to Governor Stanley that as you state that Estimates of the Church & Stores were prepared long before you received instructions to proceed, the most ready way of removing such delay might probably be to have those plans & Estimates sent home and examined and finally settled in this Country.
His Lordship has accordingly directed Sir J. Davis to transmit those plans & Estimates for...