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Hospital, and the room near will be reserved for storing. For the last 15 years the bodies of the dead, whose relations cannot afford to pay the expense, have been kept in the Temple as hitherto.
16. It has been my chief object to enlist active Chinese sympathy in the erection and future maintenance of the proposed Hospital, because I think, in addition to many other obvious and excellent moral advantages, it is politic, when possible, to place the Chinese in a position where they find themselves heartily cooperating with the local Government, a policy which I have followed with excellent results in the institution of the Native Police maintained by the Chinese entirely from local voluntary subscriptions. Vide Report of Registrar General in Blue Book for 1867.
17. I have therefore proposed to contribute from funds at the disposal of Government $10,000 on the Chinese completing and paying into one of the Banks a subscription of $15,000. In addition, I propose to give a site extremely suitable when levelled. The expense of which, to be also defrayed by Government, will be upwards of $5000. It is very gratifying to see the alacrity and zeal which animates the Chinese here in many of the leading men signing subscription lists and collecting the funds.
18. On the other hand, whilst allowing a Chinese Committee to exercise a general control over the management of the proposed Hospital, it is agreed that the