Last task, the seamen frequenting this first being comprised of all nations from "Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. By such an arrangement the great nuisance would be removed from the Queen's Road, and this would cause the removal of a still greater viz., the brothels existing in the neighbourhood of the Seamen's boarding houses.
I should think that if His Excellency were to cause a public notice to be issued to the effect that the Plan of the public building could be perused for a certain period at the Surveyor General's Office, (and no better period could be chosen than the present); that the ground floor, well adapted for Merchants offices, was to be let, and that tenders would be received,
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it might enable him to come to some early conclusion on the subject, and ascertain what rent could be obtained for it.
The next increase is £402.15.10 under Rents exclusive of buildings, viz., for Markets and Buildings. The proposed alterations in the Market System will, I fear, not take place until September 1857, when the Lease for the central Market expires. Some provisional market might, however, be sometime in the meantime at the East portion of the town, and in the new Police Ordinance about to be framed some provision should be made against the exposure of Meat for sale along the Queen's Road, etc. Licenses. The increase has been £1312.14.10, of which the greater