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was

and considering that the betimate confessedly

underrated by Mr. Gordon, _ that the edifice

-

cannot be consecrated until the debt due on it

be paid off, and that a

large portion of

· very accommodation is still set apart for the Croops

the

and others, and therefore

cannot be profitably

may

may be

to the

most

urgently recommend that I.

let, I meet urgently

authorized to make a further payment-

extent of £. 455. 4 - 2/1⁄2, the amount which

"

is at the present time due on

the building,

( exclusive of the Architect's commission), and for which the Crustees are by bond personally

responsible to the parties from whom the

Inoney

8.

was obtained.

now under acknow=

In the Despatch ledgement I find Your Lordship

"the strongest ground for

conceives

some additional

that

contribution towards the cost of the Church urged by the Crustees in their letter appears

alleged to have taken

to be the great increased alle

place in the demands

on

the part of the local

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Government for sittings in the Church, thereby diminishing their power of profitably letting seats." I regret, My Lord, that my Deepatite-

did not refer to this

subject:

this

omission

aware)

authorities

arose partly from my not having been of the demands made by the military until I saw them in the correspondence forming

a

it

on

- portion of the Exclosures in that Despatch, but principally from considering the Church Cructees to have had no legal claim whatever against Her Majesty's Government, and that therefore became unnecessary to add to the bulk of the voluminous correspondence then transmitted. I have, however, in consequence of Your Lordship's observations, been in communication with Lieut. :- Colonel Trevor,

the officer temporarily

in command of the Croops), and the Acting Colonial. Chaplain,

on

this matter, and the result has been to

reduce the sittings

to be set apart for the __

military from 494 to 850, by which means