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Department under the Commanding Royal Engineer, the narrowness of the capabilities possessed by the former becomes sufficiently apparent, and I am therefore able so far to conroborate the statements of the Acting Surveyor General in the first of these Reports.
In
be fact this consideration, and the superior knowledge of Government Works possessed by the Royal Engineers, induced me to recommend that the principal Public Buildings should be executed by them, and that Majov Aldrich should be required to consider all the Civil Reports and Estimates before I submitted them to the Executive Council, or reported them for the sanction of Sber Majesty's Government .
The
e first formation of a new Colony has, in cases where the public health or the Military
or other communications called for the immediate execution of Drainage or Roads, rendered it necessary to proceed without the
previous
previous sanction of Her Majesty's Government: but that sanction has now been obtained for all the Estimates down to No 6 of 1845. I am happy to state that with the exception of the Public Buildings already proposed, a remaining distance of 5 miles of Read to complete the circuit of the island,
e further Drainage in the town of Victsria, the necessary Public Wicks. may be considered as accomplished.
and some,
I shall have the honor to forward
the Colonial Blue Book, with my own
Report, by the nest monthly Mail-
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
With the highest respect,
Your Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
rodani