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already exists there ; but the centre

of the Valley is still a marshy swamp; the malarious exhalations from

very unhealthy the

which render

entire Eastern quarter of the Citys

3

It has

Long

been the

poceral and legitimate desire of this community to have the. "Happy Valley reclaimed and formed into a Publie Park, with "Cricket and Polo grounds. My

attention was drawn to this

subject soon

after my arrival.

here last year; and I caused a

proposal

Enclosures

1 and 2 Enclosure 2 sent

proposal. to be prepared and

submitted to the Colonial

Legislature, which unanimously

adopted it, and voted the sum twenty-five

thousand dollars

of

($25,000), at which the cost of the

drainage and reclamation is

estimated:

I now transmit

α

Report and plan from the Surveyor

(M. Rice), explaining the -

(ature diy General (Mr. Price).

project in question. It is proposed that the cost should be defrayed

from the ordinary revenue of the

Colony

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