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12 ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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and
stop cocks both within and without the house to regulate the supply, or effect repairs when ~
demanded. Cisternal tanks have
cocks in the
and in
мус
also been placed at each of the discharge
in the yards weather it is proposed to fill these every morning and cut off the supply for the remainder of the day.
as the servants are so careless
and the
and the waste of water is prodigious, the charge of the stopcocks has accordingly been given to the Royal Engineer department, superintendent of Waterworks employed for
the service of the Barracks executes the duty.
Some of the Furniture for Government House arrived during
54
the Year from England in perfect
order and was
together with such articles as were made here placed
in the Building, but owing to the neglect of the Overseer employed to
erect the chandeliers one
fell
of them was considerably
down and was conse
work
but
injured, that is the glass
nearly all destroyed fortunately no other damage resulted to the furniture, as a
oil
I was spilt.
This circumstance, trivial
as it may appear, is one of the many evidences I have to shew what little truste
trust can be placed in thinen Overseers or workmen, it was quite
impossible for
me to reirain and
personally inspect every item of