glad to report for the information of His Excellency that with few exceptions in outlying districts, all the repairs to roofs of buildings enumerated in the accompanying return have been already completed! so that further damage from the -heavy rains which have succeeded regards Publie
the storm, has
Buildings been almost entirely averted. I had roughly assessed these damages at #6000 and much regret that the disheartening reports, measurements, and estimates of
the Southern side
the havoe on
of the Island which have since reached me should have swelled.
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this figure to its present proportions. It is only right however to state that much of the damage here detailed is due to the subsequent
heavy
rains which we have.
experienced.
I have se.
A
(signed) M. Price
Surveyor General