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my dispatch No 306
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In the event of the tenants agreeing to do their best, a fresh contract to be entered into, I apprehend that both morally and legally the Government would have to defray its share of the undertaking, and some weeks will probably lapse before it can be ascertained whether there be such concert amongst the tenants as to render further action and expenditure by the Government immediately necessary.
The possibility of a still larger expenditure being imposed most inopportunely on the Government is imminent from the damage caused by the Typhoon to the Sea Wall of the Praya, a most ill-constructed work, and one which reflects little credit on the late Surveyor General Mr Cleverly, under whose surveillance it was built.
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The damage to the Western half of the Praya is such that the Street is in several places impassable, having the Sea Wall to abut on many of the great adjoining houses. The Proprietors of several of the latter have called on the Government to make good the damage, but I have declined to do so, as the magnitude of the expenditure in which the Colony...