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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:
み
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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