M Hawer

manner is

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This is to me a very unsatisfactory

correspondence, and reflects little credit on the

which put the house was performed in the early years of its presentment. If

the Institute say, is plain that fault did, and

due to the Contractors and some Workmen. With respect to the claim

of the Architect it seems clear from the Correspondence between the Rev. Mr. Stanton and the Colonial Secretary that the Governor did not view the erection of the Church as a Govt. Work and that he meant that the Architect

as a

ne for

should be paid a Commission independently of his Salary as public Officer. It was a very unusual arrangement for the Governor to have made, and one which he ought to have obtained the

the Secretary of State, but having been entered into, faith must I conclude be kept with him.

sanction

q

I wanted for ... dustin.

AB.

"213. 31 Oct 7/50.

promise that the station was instructed showed

I added by Cost and this without precaution

& the period when the

use to be held complete.

Geny

engagement die Her bare put an

Estimate of £ 6950, and immediately paper

ordinance to raise 2/3 of this sum, and set

his architect at work "Estimate "

on

the strength of this

although he must have been perfectly aware some day, experience that the work was likely to exceed the estimate

and that disputes were certain to arise

to the excess.

Accordingly the expense did very

7.7.8.31/10.

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