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C.O. 133

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2.

Convict labour has since the

tate of these Requisitions become again more practicably useful and the convicts are now

are now engaged in the service of repair over the whole City :

Drains. Side channels were placed on the Land side of the Hand Road for the sum of £37. 3.5 7439.3.3, under Report and Estimate in of 1854. the stone provided by Government latten from the ruins of the Albany Ordowns.

Under authority of Report and Cetinate Wr. 1 of 1855. I was

enabled to commence the execution.

of various services in the drainage of the District-Victoria West, not - parts of the area already

only in

built on, but ou

• portions where land

had been lately sold, £851.5.7.

sanctioned, and at the close of the £543. 5. 8 had been paid

year

sccount, the balance however will.

be insufficient to complete all that.

is demanded in that crowded

district, and for the increasing counts of the district now being built over and extending in all

directions .

arrd

In Victoria last Report latinate 2 of 1055. provided for the construction of some drains adjoining properties already built upon, amounting to £386. 5. 3; £182.10.2 has been expended

ed and the remainder

will be requisite in that service.

A much larger

however now

amount is

demanded for the