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for L 382.11 .. is to compick the road from West Point to Überdien, in .. addition to the former sums allowed

in the amount of £4,044,13-972. – I have examined this lead and it

to

that the Estimate -

appears

意思

and Report for this additional __

-

expenditure is diawn up with wery necessary detail to authorize the amount; and clearly to show the necessity for the immediate expendi.

to complete the

ture the same,

of

Service.

The excess of the present expenditure upon all the services,

may in a principal degree be attributed to the desire of the

.

Surveyor General in his Original Estimate to keep the outlay

each within the narrowest bounds.

and

and as

limited

experience has shown, within too

ones.

I estum the three Reports

Extimates.

I have, VC.

and

(Signed) Edward Mdrich, Major, Comm 2. R. & Supt 7. Engineer.

(Tone Copy).

Frederict M.A. Bruz