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N85.

Financial.

Copy to hear: 29 och 47.

امل

The gh

RECEIFFE

OCT22

1847

My Lord,

جمد

204

Victoria, Hongkang,

28th July, 1847

I received a Report from the

Land Office of this Colony regarding repairs

necessary for a wooden Bridge which had

a: your and a

been constructed only about half. As this appeared much too short a

period to occasion the necessity for repairs to

work, I requested a Bourd of

so new a

Ordnance officers

to examine

the

Bridge

and report their opinion upon it, which

they did.

in the annered paper!

It appeared from this that unseasoned wood had been employed in the construction of the Bridge in question, and that the planking,

The Right Honorable,

The Earl Grey,

Le

was too slight

in

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