CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12] — Page 215

likewise.

Report and retimate Nr.7,

- forwarded as Enclosure with this

Despatch, relates to some-

useful and

within the Town,

important works lying and therefore available for

which

may

thus

saving in expense.

convict labour, effect a considerable...

The estimated

worth of the Prisoners labour-

roads will be

have given

these

on.

I

equal to 11.712 Dollars.

directions for a careful register.

of all

to be kept of the estimated value work performed by the fervists, in order

that a

a view

may

at any

time be obtained.

of the worth of their labour, as a set

set off expenses of their keep

against

the

On the 25th September. I received. the enclosed Letter from the Military Department, in.

reply to a recommendation

on my part that the Road to Stanley by Saiwan should be adopted as the

regular

N3.

8.4.

7.

212

regular_ line of Military communication. with Victoria, abandoning the old- horeepath by the Happy Valley", otherwise called. Wongneichung ;

latter were

ต

that, if the...

repaired, some alteration

should be made in it, tending to shorten the distance, and to avoid a high ridge

which is at present crossed by

the Line.

The Major General (under whose

administration as

Lieutenant Governor.

the Saiwan Line had been undertaken.)

maintained the necessity of preserving.

both the lines

of

Communication, and

"

forwarded the opinion of Major. Adriah. that the old Line by the Happy valley should be repaired_ as it was,

any

without

deviation. On a Military point of

this nature. I had no hesitation in

the opinions as expressed in adopting the Enclosure, and accordingly directed

the