Pier in accordance with Plan Specifications which had to be approved by the Governor in Council.
Before my arrival in the Colony the Plan had received the requisite sanction, and it is only on account of what has recently taken place that I have to address Your Lordship in the matter.
The history of the Pier, so far as I can gather, to be as follows:-
On the application of certain influential Merchants the then Governor agreed to introduce an Ordinance which had been prepared under the supervision of Mr. Attorney General Pannerefots(?) so as to give the projected Company the necessary powers to carry out their design.
The Bill was referred to a Special Committee of the Council, which recommended that it should become law, provided that five openings of feet(?) each in the Pier passage(?) were constructed for the small boats.
This recommendation, however, was not embodied in the Ordinance, but it was made that the Plans and Specifications should be approved by the Governor in Council, as I have stated and the Ordinance was proposed on the understanding that the recommendations of the Committee...
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