CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12] — Page 91

expressed

Lun

au

opinion

that this

might be required for

unforesion contingencies Since writing the

above mentioned dispatch, - the

insecure state

the Debtors Prison

has been brought to by the Sheriff, and having referred the subject to the Surveyor Sineral for his Report, copy of

which is herewith enclosed, I find that Officer is of opinion that the

ht to my notice

present Prison is altogether

unsuitable for

the

purpose..

Staving personally visited

Aus

the Debtors Fail, I can have Thesitation in stating that Icutirely concur in the opinion of Mr Cleverly- The present Building was created in 1842 shortly after the formation of the Colony-

might be

was as

Q

90

expected very indifferently built -

and is

mto-

state. It

in

a

very dilapidated.

for

was intended

the

residence and office of the chief

Magistrate,

and is in

Consequence,

besides being very insecure, altogether

illadapted for

the

purposes

to

which it has been converted._ Under this explanation, therefore, I would, with great repet,

recommend that the available sum abovementioned be devoted

for

the construction

of an entirely

new debtors' Prison,

ma

Plan that

I shall have the hour to submit

as soon as one can

one can be prepared.

Should

your Lordship be

pleased to sanction this the sum of

in

mcazure,

£2,530 can be brought the retimate forwarded in my

Despatch 1.70 of 25# Ultimus, under