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as some
Sappers, which is to be regretted, portions of the work require constant atten. tim, which I am naturally unable to give
with the other services demanding
to my attention; I however manage visit the building regularly, and if pos. sible, tivice a day, and have much pleasure in stating the work is pro -greping properly, and the Contractors
giving satisfaction.
The Chinese Overseer
and the three Department coolies have
been
Employed during the year
usual manner in attendance
in the
upon m
me
as chair-men, for surveying or other - purposes, in the ordinary small repairs which are demanded to the Roads, Sheet; &, and, as I have no Foreman or Clerk
works, I make them berseers on Contract Works in the formation of Roads; in
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these services I find them very useful, and they have given perfect satisfaction during
the
year.
Most of the Civil Building under my charge have been repaired as satisfactorily
as circumstances would admit, andothers
requiring it have been postpones awaiting instructions as to the neepity for the upholding of them or not; they are
the Police Statines
hear
the Allany
Godowns
And at East Point & Leighton's Browns,
both of which are in a
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state indeed.
very dilapidated
Several defects appear in the
Court Struse, particularly in the outer cornices, the crowning or projecting member of which has unfortunately been formed
with wood plastered in cement, and the whole
being covered up, the leakages therein and want of ventilation have
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