I have been informed, that we have sufficient funds to
do so, perhaps His Excellency will allow me
to make that alteration.
I have, to
(Signed) A T. Gordon.
Surveyor General
True Copy.
Memo Colonial Secretary:
1846
Sir
In 1658 Whong
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RESERVED
AUG 26 1848
Royal Engineer's Office, Victoria,
Hongkong, 12th November, 1846.
I have the honor to return to
you
& letter No. 66 Report and Estimate No.7, with 5 Drawings. for a Botanical Church, forwarded to me in your letter of the 9th Instant, requesting me by order of His Excellency the Governor to report
thereon.
I have examined the drawings, and the only suggestion I would beg to offer for consideration, (and which is more a matter of taste), is that the roof I think would be thought
more in keeping with:
the general style of the building, if the trusses were
ornamented, with pointed arches
in
the intervals,
on
a queen-post truss, instead of being ornamented in
the Norman style upon a king post truss
The Hon'ble
Major Caine,
Officer Colonial Secretary.