to
Commodore Watson
my
bert
acknowledgments for the invaluable
Service they rendered with the Officers
ji
and men under their command.
To the prompt and disciplined apistance given to the Civil authorities by the Military and Staval Officers I attribute not only the effectual limitation of the fire but the fact
single life was lost
that not a
wr
th
single person ceriously injured though it became necepary to blow down with gunpowder considerable number of houses surrounding a dense net work
narrow Streets.
6.
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save the central Police Station and the Gach, I had to order the temporary Civil Ampiled to be blown down. The patients had been removed to the Lock Storpital, which, fortunately, empty and which at presents, accommodates them fairly well
When I receive the Official
was almost
reports. I chall be able to estimate
accurately the lop of property sustained by the Government and by private individuals, and to consider some improvements that may be necepary existing organization for
be necepary in the