1. Purchase of hutta
2. Salaries for Supt & Staff
3. Fitting & bout
4. Compensation to Squatters
5. Salary of Surgeon
Total-
The Expense of the first
I
items hank her sanction
Eng the dreammy-
$5,250
$4,968
$13,011
$3,211
$1,000
$27,440 or £5716.13.0
Mr. Mercer
Houstong, 24th June 1869
The Duke of Newcastle.
3 enclosures
No. 121.
Received
Convict Staft, and removal
Reporting completion of the
200
long-
where from Victoria hasl.
It
now remains to
Ask their Lordships'
Sanction the amount
of the 3 remaining items
And in a memo of this despatch, it might be added
#17,222 or £3587.18.0
stating
that whilst recommending
this large amount for their sanction, it was of opinion that a considerable saving would be effected in the estimated
Cost of the work
by the Employment
of Convict Labour to
an extent which was
not anticipated when the Estimate for that work was first brought under the notice of their Lordships.
M. Robinson
1 in 121
348
Compensation to Squatters
Stone Cutters Island
in
the Colony of Hongkong