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

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