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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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was unfortescutely roonoved by death in the discharge of his Military duties at the

anton tactories, ande

"find that while the Records of the Department have been kept in an exemplarymanner by Mr. Power, scarcely any Memoranda of a private mature

hereby to asce

to ascertain the cos

animus of either the Surveyor Exneral himself or the lase Acting Surveyor General exist,

o that of find myself compelled

so

to draw up a mere circumstantial

statement of events collected from the Records of the Department including, as a matter of course, the copies of correspondence.

During the Year Government House was finally completed and in point of arrangement and general design is not inferior

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As

to any Building of thes

riye and finished at the

vame

me expence at home . With one exception, that of the poof, the works have been well and efficiently executed, although the Surveyor General must have experienced, ordinary difficulty in drilling the native workmen to carry out the details so creditablefs.

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Three new Cook house have been built in the Gaot Yard and the old ones removed so as to afford better surveillance of the Work Yard from the Guard House.

Repairs have been effected?: to the Supreme Court House, to the Post Office, to the "Wongneichung &metery Chapel, 10 to 1 Police Station, to the Police Barrack at Aberdeen, and the Government Flagstaff removed from the

has been removed.

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