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debits of all the information necessary for the purpose should be sent home, and that a premium be offered for the best plan provided by any Architect in open competition, from which local Architects should not be excluded, upon two conditions.
It will be necessary to place the Estimates for the next few years at the disposal of the Government for such a sum of money as shall be required for this work. The Committee hesitate to suggest that sum, which must necessarily be large, only to be fixed according to the amount at the disposal of the Government.
Last year, under the instructions of His Excellency Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, plans and estimates for a new Hospital were prepared and the suggestions made were, in a great measure, in accordance with the conclusions then arrived at, with the exception that His Excellency was of opinion that the plans should be thrown open to competition in which the Colony at large should be allowed to participate; under the altered circumstances, we submit it is not now advisable.
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