of which
you sent me. I see nothing whatever
in paragraph 2 of that Rule to exclude the cost of the site upon which a
school
is to be erected, from being taken into Consideration in connection with the application for a Building Grant. The cost of the brick and stone of which the walls are constructed might just as well be omitted from the calculation, if the word "Building" is to be thus strictly construed.
I have the honour, therefore, to request that you will lay my application before His Excellency the Governor in the shape in which it was sent in. This does not seem to have been done yet, as I perceive that the Communication now under reply is not by direction of His Excellency.
With reference to paragraph 6 of the same Rule, you point out that Grants are made on actual, not on estimated cost of building, or rather on the balance of building.
And