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the width of the road from the point when it leaves the coast from fifty feet to one.

As nearly every public work essential to the prosperity and uses of the Colony has now been undertaken

or completed, with the exception of some drains and water courses, five remaining miles of roads to complete the circuit of this Island, and some minor items, and as I shall not attempt the erection of Government Offices or a Government House, until Plans and Estimates can be submitted for Your Lordship's sanction, I see little prospect of further Expenditure during

the approaching year on account of Public Works. This must therefore be considered as a last reduction

on the Treasurer's Estimates forwarded in my despatch No. 73 of December No. 5,647

are pro 229 December, 18th comprising as they did a supposed amount of works, which there are no present means in the Land office to execute, even had they been authorized. I beg to inclose a very satisfactory

Report from the Auditor on the mode in which the Public works have been Executed in the Surveyor General's Department

I have the honor to be,

With the highest respect

Your Lordships'

Most Obedient,

Humble Servant.