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island 18 miles being completed out of 25. The

remaining five miles are now ordered.

to be executed, and this work has been-

commened. In purposes of Military protection, as well as of Police, and for the general traffic and internal communications If the Colony; this road is essential.

-Appended to this despatch-

Reports from the Surveyor

are two

General-

on the

A.2.

the

s 3.

Public Works during 1846,

1846, and on progress of his department... From the former of these it

appears

that the value of

Convict labour in the course

of the year

m

estimated. at nearly £700.. I find cxamination that the food and clothing of the Prisoners in Gaol has amounted to £713, and hence it appears that this necessary expense has been nearly repaid

the labour of the Convits-

by th

The completion of the Gaols has relieved the Government from a heary

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amount of Rent paid for the occupation of hired buildings, and at the same time. greatly augmented the security of the. Prisoners. The receipt of a final sanction for the

work from your Lordship has enabled me to commence- the erection of a Colonial Church. The first stone of the Building was laid by:

large

sue on the 11th Instant, with a

attendance of the Colony; and the event is so far memorable, as this is the first Protestant Spiscopal Church ever erected on the

confines of China. The delay which has arisen from the postponed sanction ofther Majesty's Govemment

plans,

ent has tended to mature the

as well as to accumulate funds.-. One third of the expense having been "contributed by the inhabitants, I have deemed it right to pass

an Ordinance, veiting

the property and suanagement of the Church, partly in Trustees chosen by the subscribers, and partly in others nominated by the