CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12] — Page 226

Service will be required; in which

light S therefore bey leave to recommend the separate proposed Crependiture for the repairs to the Aberdeen Road and for the Sywan and Tylam Roads

Roads contained in the Surveyor

General's letter No:52 to be entertained:

The proposal to appropriate the

saving of the value

of material on the

Aberdeen Road to the disbursemen

t for

labour for that Service is simply one of Office arrangement, not affecting the actual Erspenditure for the Aivice :

With reference to Report and

Estimate Nr 4 I have the honor to report, that I consider the proposal contained

therein to be a very adv

very advantageous a

appropriation of the Convict labour,

that an

beg however to recommend,

approximate .

arimate value be taken for

grass seed to be supplied, and any other

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" of the

that the amount.

necessary outlay _ that the Estimate may thus be divided into tier sums

one es pressive of the disbursement to be made under the Surveyor General's direction, and

the other as a

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saving upon the Service by the employment of Convict labour, as this clerical division appears to me necessary,

fully to explain the expenditure for the krvice.

I return the

in the papers and enclosures

as transmetted to me.

I have; for

( Signed) Edward Aldrich, Major Como 2 Al & Supt Engineer

(True Copy.)

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Acretary.

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