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to visit it on more than one occasion. The
Committe therefore deem it unnecessary. to go into details with reference to the building and it very large original cost, which was almost wholly subscribed
and would only remark
Hall open and
in the Colony that to keep the City in a state of repain the public have had to subscribe freely, the income derived from letting the Theatre, Ball room to having been inadequate. meet the absolutely necessary expenditure amounting annually to a little over $6.000. Fonverty and from the offering
of
to
the Hall the Government awisted
it's funds by
but owing
to
an annual contribution,
a-
difference of opinion
the grout ceard in the time of the
Governor's
Governor's immediate predecessor. The n
the
Committee brucet that His Excellency Governor will; in consideration of the great
the
public importance of the Library which
contains some 7.000 columnes, and of Museum which was visited during
June
the
twelve months ending 30th Jeme 1883 by no less than 17/2, 57/9 persons, place upon
the Estimates a
Hall of
A Bum
City
anntir.
special grant to the Cit of $2.400,
2.4.00 per "The finances of the Bestitution are
at the moment in exceptional difficulties
owing to the funds the Convmittee depended upon for
current axpenses
being in the hands of the Oriental Bank
which has closed its doors, and the Committee would axpress a hope that His liccellency th
the Governor would direct
that