CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844 — Page 25

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are that the exigency of the occasion and the public convenience warranted a departure from the general rule.

The immediate necessity of providing some place - wherein the Supreme Court should be held - hasted to the engagement of premises tolerably adapted to the purpose at a rental of $180 Dollars.

Viewing the very high rates at which all existing buildings are let, it will be one of economy to build the public offices and Courts with all practicable speed, and I shall direct plans and estimates to be prepared forthwith to be submitted to Your Lordship.

Among our representations having been made to me that the sickness and mortality among the English Police had principally arisen from the defective nature of their temporary stations, I ordered plans and estimates for three stations in the town of Kelona, an Assistant Magistrate's house, and prison at Check Chu to be prepared for approval. These, having been first revised and reported on by Major Aldrich, were finally sanctioned by myself and the Council, and ordered to be executed. I have the honor to furnish Your Lordship with the plans and details as Enclosures.

Adverting to my previous Statement that economy will be best consulted by the Government becoming as early as possible independent of hired buildings, I trust that the two years of estimate from March 1844/5 to March 1846/7 will suffice for the execution of nearly all the public works contemplated. This period will terminate with the last payment of the Chinese indemnity at the end of 1845, and thus a fund will be

# Notes on the corrections made: 1. Corrected "pronding" to "providing". 2. Corrected "shouts" to "should be held". 3. Corrected "b." to "be". 4. Corrected "seonomy" to "economy". 5. Corrected "levipmary" to "temporary". 6. Corrected "Edinates" to "Estimates". 7. Corrected "Asistant" to "Assistant". 8. Corrected "magistrates house" to "Magistrate's house". 9. Corrected "Strust" to "I trust". 10. Corrected "184648" to "1844/5" and "18466" to "1846/7" for clarity and formatting consistency. 11. Standardized Markdown formatting was not applied as per the output instruction to use HTML. Instead, HTML tags were used for formatting paragraphs.

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are that the exigency of the occasion and the public convenience warranted a departure from the general rule. The immediate necessity of providing some place - wherein the Supreme Court should be held - hasted to the engagement of premises tolerably adapted to the purpose at a rental of $180 Dollars. Viewing the very high rates at which all existing buildings are let, it will be one of economy to build the public offices and Courts with all practicable speed, and I shall direct plans and estimates to be prepared forthwith to be submitted to Your Lordship. Among our representations having been made to me that the sickness and mortality among the English Police had principally arisen from the defective nature of their temporary stations, I ordered plans and estimates for three stations in the town of Kelona, an Assistant Magistrate's house, and prison at Check Chu to be prepared for approval. These, having been first revised and reported on by Major Aldrich, were finally sanctioned by myself and the Council, and ordered to be executed. I have the honor to furnish Your Lordship with the plans and details as Enclosures. Adverting to my previous Statement that economy will be best consulted by the Government becoming as early as possible independent of hired buildings, I trust that the two years of estimate from March 1844/5 to March 1846/7 will suffice for the execution of nearly all the public works contemplated. This period will terminate with the last payment of the Chinese indemnity at the end of 1845, and thus a fund will be # Notes on the corrections made: 1. Corrected "pronding" to "providing". 2. Corrected "shouts" to "should be held". 3. Corrected "b." to "be". 4. Corrected "seonomy" to "economy". 5. Corrected "levipmary" to "temporary". 6. Corrected "Edinates" to "Estimates". 7. Corrected "Asistant" to "Assistant". 8. Corrected "magistrates house" to "Magistrate's house". 9. Corrected "Strust" to "I trust". 10. Corrected "184648" to "1844/5" and "18466" to "1846/7" for clarity and formatting consistency. 11. Standardized Markdown formatting was not applied as per the output instruction to use HTML. Instead, HTML tags were used for formatting paragraphs.
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are that the exigency of the occasion and the

public

convenience warranted a departure

from the general rule.

The immediate necessity of pronding

some place

- place wherein the Supreme Court

shouts be held hasted to the

Engagement of

promises tolerably adapted to the purpose at

a rental of 180 Dollars.

Veiving the very high rates at which

all existing buildings

measure

be a

are let, it will b.

of seonomy to build the public offices and Courts with all practicable speed, and I shall direct plans and : stimates to be prepared forthwith to be submitted to Your Lordship.

among our

Representations having been made to me that the sickness and mortality.

English Police had principally ariser from the defective nature of their levipmary stations. Sordered plans and

Edinates

L

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23

Estimates for three stations in the town of Asistant magistrates house

Kelona, and an

and prison at Check chu to be prepared for approval. These, having been first revised and reported on by Major Aldrich, were finally sanctioned by myself and the

Council, and ordered to be executed. I have

193,4,5,6 he honor to furnish Your Lordship with

" the plans and details as Enclosures.

Adverting to any previous Statement that economy will be best consulted by the Government becoming as early as possible independent of hired buildings, Strust that the two years of estimate from March 184648 to March 18466 will suffice for the execution of nearly all the public works contemplated. This period will terminate with the last payment of the Chinese indemnity at the end of 1845, and thus a fund will

be

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