is not essentially necessary to a____ Church_.__
If the first
reaso
had been.
justly applicable to the subscribers to the Building, it would have been unnecessary
for us
to address
you again upon the subject,
Jas in euch case His Lordship's decision would
have been reasonable._
As it is, however, we must respectfully submit that neither the subscribers in general, von them, had any knowledge
the Trustees for them, whatever
of a deficiency of funds, until it was
too late to overcome
It
ivas
the
difficulty.
shown in the letter. which we
hand the houn of addressing to you on the 23rd May last year, that the plan of St John's was submitted to and approved of by of Houghtong Sir John Davis,
Church
the former
Governor
and directions given by him to the Surveyor several to proceed with the Building some
stime before the Trustees
were
appointed.
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Moreover, His Excelleney, at the time
of laying the foundation Stone, reach to the meeting then assembled, a " Record" of the event, in which he stated the "retimated. Rxpenditure £6,960. thereby leading every_ that the Building would
me
to
suppose
the
be erected
for
authorized.
sum subzeribed, and
The dreument we
refer to was
published immediately afterwards in the newspaper in which official ustices are
inserted._
Itisevident. therefore that the subscribers to the Building
were not merely
not acquainted with the fact of a deficiency of funds, but on the contrary they
actually informed that the reverse
were actually
wa
the cave_ and as we have before
stated, it was not until several months
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for.
afterwards when the Building advanced and the plan could not be