28.
29.
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I am not prepared to face if your Lordship should prefer the work being done for the sole benefit of the Government, I nevertheless think it riay possibly be on the whole better to retain the form of
arrangement orginally contemplated,
and to secure for the public a somewhat fairer share of the profit by means of
by
a
premium on the reclaimed lots or
increased recit."
177.
The amount of such
precum would niuch depend on the
work, as accertained by
actual cost of the.
| borders of however ett Price's extimate
should
should prove correct, and he
asures,
me that it is over, rather than under
the mark, I think that there should
be provision for a total premium of
at least one million of dollars, or
a
· for.
and
• proportionate increase of rent; that the allottees of the reclaimed land
owners
a-
should further be required to pay reasonable compensation to the present. of wharves, who (as will be. - -observed from the correspondence with thee ) though expecting nothing if the scheme were undertaken solely for the benefit of the Government,
claim