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whole scheme must remain in abeyance as it lacks any definite
form in which it can be considered by the Marine Lot holders.
This delay is much to be regretted. The
scheme involves payment in premium to the Colonial Government
of a sum of over 9884,000 and in Crown Rent of an annual sum
of over $64,000. Apart from these financial considerations
there is the even more important necessity of improving the
Sanitary condition of the Eastern portion of the City, the
foreshore of which by rapid silting is very offensive and ill
adapted to receive the sewage which is discharged upon it,
and of providing more house accommodation to receive the popu-
lation which must be displaced from the overcrowded City.
I trust therefore that you will endeavour
to obtain the early acceptance by the Admiralty and War Depart-
ment of the boundary proposed in my Despatch No. 244 of the
8th. of May. last as the result of correspondence extending
over more than 12 months.
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Owing to the delay in settling the boundary
referred to and consequently in submitting the scheme to the
Lot-holders and then to you, a complication has arisen with
the Electric Tramway Company, which has begun to lay its per-
manent way, in regard to the roadway along the present Eastern
Praya.
Both July 1908.
I enclose copy of a letter on the subject
from the Director of Public Works from which you will learn
that in carrying out the Reclamation the first step would be
to raise the Praya roadway in order to give a proper fall to the
new system of sewers.
The Tramway Company desire to lay their
permanent