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"the Council as to the course to pursue under the circumstances stated.
“Debate ensues, and after deliberation, it is Resolved in reference to Mr Bird, that His Excellency be advised to reprimand him for not having, on receipt of the letter from the commanding Royal Engineer of the 16th February, personally visited or even sent the Clerk of Works to visit the place where the Convicts were employed in removing earth, so as to ascertain by such inspection the nature of the risk incurred