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be,
but in reply to a letter from Mofers. Dont & Co,
the constituted Creasurers for the Public, they informed by the Colonial Secretary.
were
4
th. March 1847, that £. 6900
estimated
was
the
CAL
Lum
the
estin 1 for the Church, and Ordinance Nr 2 of 1847, dated 11th March of that year, announced the same. It is therefore clear to me that Sir John Davis considered the provisions of the Ordinance the final arrangement, and binding the Government only to the payment of £. 4,600, which was two-thirds of the Estimate, for this service.
Reverend Mr. Stanton
Up to this period, the
appears
to have had.
the principal management of matters connected
with the Church; but at an early period it seems to have been
- generally understood that
: the Estimate was on consia
considerably
too low a
soale for a building of the magnitude contemplated in the plans; nevertheless, the=
building was
- was commenced, and no official_ representation, so far as I
as I am aware, was made
:
02-
the inadequacy of the funds by Mr. Stanton the Crustees, until the 25th May, 1848, two
months after
4.
the
departure of Sir John Davis . On the 7th May 1847, Trustees were officially nominated, 4 by the Government and 2 elected by the public. These Crustees much have been fully cognizant of the before.
named fact, and I bring this forward to show
that there does not in
my
opinion
exist a
shadow of legal claim against the Government
for further contribution; but in consideration
of the evident mistakes to
?
Mr.
palpably.
evinced
on the part of M2 Gordon, the Surveyor General
at the time of drawing up the Estimate
( for £.6900),
as well as
that Estimates
ad
seldom equal the real cost of a building, remarked by Your Lordship, it
matter for
may
be
a
the consideration of Her Majesty's
the
Government whether it would not be desirable. to make a further grant for enabling. Cructees to liquidate the debts now due . By