the report of the Surveyor General as to its
condition is not such as to warrant, its purchase by the Government. It will therefore be continued on the terms settled by my predecessor, until such time as & permanent Court house can be erected.
QU
As long
as a
Government House remains unbuilt, I am compelled to provide myself with any residence that the existing state of the Colony affords. On quitting the building which is to be occupied as a temporary Court house, I have engaged a house lately completed, not far from the Government Offices, at a monthly rental of 250 Dollars from the 1 # Instant. As this may appear high, I have only to state that the Majiv General Commanding sccupies at present a much inferior residence for
which
120
which 400 Dollars a month have been
paid since his arrival .
After the above had been drafted, I have received Your Lordship's Despatch No 14/1 of the 2nd December, approving of the arrangements contemplated for the construction of Government Offices and a Government House Major Aldrich will prepare the more comple and specific Estimates which Your Lordship requires; and in the mean while it will be desirable that the Board of Ordnance should keep up the Engineer Department in this Colony to the scale requisite for the executes of the principal bivil buildings. Such an arrangement would enable our Land Office to dispense altogether with an Anidant Surveyor
I have the honor to be
With the highest respect,
Your Lordship's,
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
Dan's