proposal that I now make
may
be
deemed worthy of more consideration, than it might be entitled to under other circumstances.
6. By my 15th Instant, Despatch 192 of the cover to the Colonial 3/26 giving retinates for the year ending 31st December 1851, Your Lordship will perceive that a demand, being the last, is made on the Imperial Government to the extent of £3,940 on account of Government - House.
Should Her Majesty's Government be pleased to decide that the General's House shall be made over to the local Government, I shall have the necessary means of making alterations and repairs to the Building, without calling on the Government for further aid on this account, and the retinate for the year 1851 may therefore be reduced from £15,500 to £1,000.
7. While on this subject, I may as well remind your Lordship that the Military Department in this Colony have now in their possession two Buildings, the Albany and Old Government offices, built at the expense of the Colony at a cost of £8,097-19-10. The last are not, I believe, in thorough repair, but they are occupied by Troops. The General's House cost the Ordnance £7,972-5-0, and is also in want of considerable alteration and repair, and must, unless transferred to the Civil Government, be put into order at heavy expense to that department. I think therefore, in a financial