337
end
of
the City Hall, upon
a
plan
to be approved by the Surveyor General. Should His Excellency the Acting Governor agree to this proposition, the Committee would commence their operations by the erection of the new Office, which would be constructed in such a manner as to make it independent of the rest of the Building, and the Harbour Master could thus enter into possession of it before the demolition of the one that it now occupies. It is suggested that the new office should have its entrance from the Praya, which is a more suitable place for unemployed seamen &c. to congregate than the locality in which they are usually to be found at present. The site which is the subject of my present application being larger than that already granted, the Committee would be enabled to make an important extension of their original plans. In addition to supplying the urgent public wants which induced the Government to accede to their former request, they could now be enabled not only to give accommodation to the General Chamber of Commerce, thereby providing the mercantile body with a "Exchange", but would also have it in their