and
A Sywan under external attack.
Any o
other
line however short would affect and render
nugatory that safe
therefore
communication _ it is
very desirable that no such line be
made, but that the whole of the South Ravine from the loool above the Happy Caller
impassable . Hence it follows
should remains
od from the Happy
that the present road from Valley to Pytans is the
is the one to be preserved,
and to be placed in a state of complete repair,
which it is hoped will not be attended with:
any ver
any and
large
disbursement.
The employment of an Officer
of Engineers on the Colonial Roads is nowhere imperatively, forbidden by the Ordnance Regulations provided that no portion of the lexpenditure falls upon the Ordnance,
but these Roads are considered as con
coming
exclusively under the bivil superintendence, Land Officer's Óstablishment
wherever there is a
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That were the Major General
prepared to strain d
a
a point under existing
circumstances fand which he is always
most willing to do where the public Pervice.
is concerned) such an arra.
arrangement is rendered totally impracticable by the state of our Military Worts, and by the great demand already made upon the Officers of Engineers under the Stanley to assist the Governor in the bivil
Buildings of the Colony.
under the instructions of Lord
s of
I have, te.
(Signed) Charles DiAguilar
Ajustant Military Secretary.
True Copy
Meine
Officiating Colonial Serators.