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seen, were un
nanimous as
to the necessity of
carrying out the alterations proposed, and
agreed to vote the necessary funds.
Provision has been made in the~
Estimates
for
next
Year
now before the
lameil for the amount proposed to be
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expended upon these works during.
1863; and the expenditure incurred
this
year
will be included in the
usual supplementary Estimates to be
passed at the close of the
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may
Year:
add that Stone Cutter's
Island is part of the Territory recently
ceded to the Crown by the Convention of Peking, and is admirably adapted in many respects for a Convict Settlement, It is situated upon the confines of the
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confines of the Harbour, about 3 miles - from Victoria, and 2 Miles from Kowloon.
It is within sight of the Military Cantonments
of the
in
both sides of the Hearbour and Police Station in this leity. The Island
is about 1 mile in length by
an average
breadth of 400 yards, and the present-
-population consists of only a few Squatters who can be removed,
engaged.
d in
quarrying
at a very trifling Expense. Stone can be oblained on the spot, and the
ground may be prepared and the quarrying effected by
Convict labour, as
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am considering the
possibility of placing 200 of the Convicts
hulk anchored off the Island
on bourd a
during the progress of the works, this
relieving at the same time the present
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