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and

A Sywan under external attack.

Any o

other

line however short would affect and render

nugatory that safe

therefore

communication _ it is

very desirable that no such line be

made, but that the whole of the South Ravine from the loool above the Happy Caller

impassable . Hence it follows

should remains

od from the Happy

that the present road from Valley to Pytans is the

is the one to be preserved,

and to be placed in a state of complete repair,

which it is hoped will not be attended with:

any ver

any and

large

disbursement.

The employment of an Officer

of Engineers on the Colonial Roads is nowhere imperatively, forbidden by the Ordnance Regulations provided that no portion of the lexpenditure falls upon the Ordnance,

but these Roads are considered as con

coming

exclusively under the bivil superintendence, Land Officer's Óstablishment

wherever there is a

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That were the Major General

prepared to strain d

a

a point under existing

circumstances fand which he is always

most willing to do where the public Pervice.

is concerned) such an arra.

arrangement is rendered totally impracticable by the state of our Military Worts, and by the great demand already made upon the Officers of Engineers under the Stanley to assist the Governor in the bivil

Buildings of the Colony.

under the instructions of Lord

s of

I have, te.

(Signed) Charles DiAguilar

Ajustant Military Secretary.

True Copy

Meine

Officiating Colonial Serators.