CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6] — Page 166

Contract.

1 for the sum

of $6,000, out of

of f

which sum $ 5,000 were c charged to the Walley, and the "Remaina er off 2,400 to

the Road..

reas

East

The work next in succession the formation of the Stead at

· point for the location of the Chinchew Merchants at an expenditure of $90.

i

and

The repairs to the Roads in the Dietrick of the Wongnoichung Sukunfu Vallies,

in

very nearly two mile length, have only amounted to the trifling sum

they

sum of $ 26. 28, during the year, efficient and perfect

are now in aer

_order._

The Road to Tylam has been opened throughout during this

year. extending from Sukumpe a distance of

line of country....

8.

Miles, and over a. presenting many difficulties

Course

in them

of its construction; the Estimates

prepared

133

prepared for this service were Nr. 9. Go and 15 of 1844, and Requisition of September 12t for Repairs and maintenance, amounting

to the hum of £ 6,39,40 5. 3. – thee sim having been expended, and the works not completed, a further Sum was sanctioned under Reporte and Estimates Nos 9 and 11 of 1845, amounting to £ 4166. 11. 7. The causes which have led to this expenditure, with the detail of t

of the expenditure...

itself, have been so fully explained in Estimate NG of this,

● year,

that.

I shall only briefly allude abbands to Considerable damage.

them

the

occurred to the Sukunfere causeway and to the Road along shove to Sookewan or Aldrich bay during gale. It was found quite impossible to present the filling from being drawn through the interstices of a

the stones composing the Rough retaining

wall,