likewise.
Report and retimate Nr.7,
- forwarded as Enclosure with this
Despatch, relates to some-
useful and
within the Town,
important works lying and therefore available for
which
may
thus
saving in expense.
convict labour, effect a considerable...
The estimated
worth of the Prisoners labour-
roads will be
have given
these
on.
I
equal to 11.712 Dollars.
directions for a careful register.
of all
to be kept of the estimated value work performed by the fervists, in order
that a
a view
may
at any
time be obtained.
of the worth of their labour, as a set
set off expenses of their keep
against
the
On the 25th September. I received. the enclosed Letter from the Military Department, in.
reply to a recommendation
on my part that the Road to Stanley by Saiwan should be adopted as the
regular
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regular_ line of Military communication. with Victoria, abandoning the old- horeepath by the Happy Valley", otherwise called. Wongneichung ;
latter were
ต
that, if the...
repaired, some alteration
should be made in it, tending to shorten the distance, and to avoid a high ridge
which is at present crossed by
the Line.
The Major General (under whose
administration as
Lieutenant Governor.
the Saiwan Line had been undertaken.)
maintained the necessity of preserving.
both the lines
of
Communication, and
"
forwarded the opinion of Major. Adriah. that the old Line by the Happy valley should be repaired_ as it was,
any
without
deviation. On a Military point of
this nature. I had no hesitation in
the opinions as expressed in adopting the Enclosure, and accordingly directed
the