Public works,
Reads
&c.
I propose reducing it from $205,900 to $107,000
this
of
only effected at a sacrifice
increased water supply and the intended drainage and improvements in the Chinese quarter of the city which at present is the principal focus of disease.
It involves also the abandonment
of
the plan for erecting Civil Hospital in the room of the present structure, which is condemned as not worth repairing and moreover is situated at the extremity instead of in the centre
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of
the town
The Marsh at Bowrington,
owing to the pestilential character of which neighborhood the Colonial Surgeon has recently called attention, must also be left undrained.
and there will be
no funds
to meet those
exigences
which occasionally arise,
for example,
damage done
In illustration of this I transmit the report by the Surveyor General received yesterday of the damage
caused by a Typhoon,
mounting to many thousand dollars.