Spending time.
Investigating both
very proper Commune
mentation the
which guide
holdups to the heading Addressed. Surveyor General
the Subject of deviation from the Original Scheme in
executing the.
th
abandoned Work
have not deemed
to make
further remark on
this point, following the directions
given by Government to
prevent
the recurrence
singularity,
No 75
Sir,
232
Colonial Office, Downing Street, Hong Kong, 15th June 1845.
You are directed by His Excellency
the Governor to return the inclosed Report and Estimate No:15 for revision, and to observe with reference to the increased Expenditure on the Sivan road, that where a work has been sanctioned according to a plan submitted in previous Report, it is irregular to depart from it without authority, in any material respect. You should have first brought to the notice of His Excellency, the reasons which in your judgment made the suggested
alteration necessary, and have solicited leave to prepare a Supplementary
C.S.G. Cleverly, Esqre
Acting Surveyor General's,
Report