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is not essentially necessary to a____ Church_.__

If the first

reaso

had been.

justly applicable to the subscribers to the Building, it would have been unnecessary

for us

to address

you again upon the subject,

Jas in euch case His Lordship's decision would

have been reasonable._

As it is, however, we must respectfully submit that neither the subscribers in general, von them, had any knowledge

the Trustees for them, whatever

of a deficiency of funds, until it was

too late to overcome

It

ivas

the

difficulty.

shown in the letter. which we

hand the houn of addressing to you on the 23rd May last year, that the plan of St John's was submitted to and approved of by of Houghtong Sir John Davis,

Church

the former

Governor

and directions given by him to the Surveyor several to proceed with the Building some

stime before the Trustees

were

appointed.

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Moreover, His Excelleney, at the time

of laying the foundation Stone, reach to the meeting then assembled, a " Record" of the event, in which he stated the "retimated. Rxpenditure £6,960. thereby leading every_ that the Building would

me

to

suppose

the

be erected

for

authorized.

sum subzeribed, and

The dreument we

refer to was

published immediately afterwards in the newspaper in which official ustices are

inserted._

Itisevident. therefore that the subscribers to the Building

were not merely

not acquainted with the fact of a deficiency of funds, but on the contrary they

actually informed that the reverse

were actually

wa

the cave_ and as we have before

stated, it was not until several months

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for.

afterwards when the Building advanced and the plan could not be