expressed
Lun
au
opinion
that this
might be required for
unforesion contingencies Since writing the
above mentioned dispatch, - the
insecure state
the Debtors Prison
has been brought to by the Sheriff, and having referred the subject to the Surveyor Sineral for his Report, copy of
which is herewith enclosed, I find that Officer is of opinion that the
ht to my notice
present Prison is altogether
unsuitable for
the
purpose..
Staving personally visited
Aus
the Debtors Fail, I can have Thesitation in stating that Icutirely concur in the opinion of Mr Cleverly- The present Building was created in 1842 shortly after the formation of the Colony-
might be
was as
Q
90
expected very indifferently built -
and is
mto-
state. It
in
a
very dilapidated.
for
was intended
the
residence and office of the chief
Magistrate,
and is in
Consequence,
besides being very insecure, altogether
illadapted for
the
purposes
to
which it has been converted._ Under this explanation, therefore, I would, with great repet,
recommend that the available sum abovementioned be devoted
for
the construction
of an entirely
new debtors' Prison,
ma
Plan that
I shall have the hour to submit
as soon as one can
one can be prepared.
Should
your Lordship be
pleased to sanction this the sum of
in
mcazure,
£2,530 can be brought the retimate forwarded in my
Despatch 1.70 of 25# Ultimus, under