Dr.
but it does not appear to one
that the dates of
the subscriptions,
12
the
mode of collecting
them, affect
250
competent authorities that the difference between
the common
commonest kind
of stained glass
glass and that
i
the question. The collection in Church and subsequent
subscriptions efforts
ow
Cass
usion only be looked
as laudable
on the part of the community to fulfil
their part of the
agreement, and to meet the proviso
in the Ordinance referred to.
With respect to the expenditure objected to in paragraphs No. 2, as having been incurred since the Church
opened, it must be borne
in mind that, in the extreme destitution of a place of worship in the felony, the Church was opened without windows of any kind, except painted wooden frames, quite
cotton stretched
on
light wooden
insufficient to exclude either sun or rain in
a
climate like this; that iron
glass
frame work
was
absolutely necessary, whatever kind of
glass was used; that plain transparent glass would have rendered the building perfectly useless, under a blazing
sun
in this Colony.
The Trustees
such as we
are
have
been advised by
and have adopted would not exceed £50 0s. £60, especially
or
was a donation. It must also be
recollected that by far the greater proportion of
viz.:
the Architect's commission, viz. £323, was due for the work then paid for.
The chief
the lower, remaining
objection, that regarding with respect to this, I would
beg
to remind
your
the Trustees
were appointed to carry
out a certain plan fixed upon by the Governor of the Colony and approved of by Her Majesty's Government; that that plan included the lower, and that Mr. Gordon's Estimate and the Ordinance both contemplated its erection.
It would appear, therefore, that
our predecessors would not have been fulfilling their duty had they
left the building
in a mutilated state: disputes may
arise
as to the part of the plan to be
left out; some might have thought the