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HONGKONG
REPORT and Estimate for the construction of By order of His Excellency the Governor
REPORT
а
new
No
SPECIAL
Debtors' Prison, Gaoler
The accompanying plooms are
in accordance
Governor in
buildings
htt
fire pared
with the directions of this Excellency The
coux.e querce
of the present state of the upied for the above purposes.
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The Debtors' Prison,
/
aterials and workmanship.
are
one of the buildings
first erected on
the establishment of the Colony, intended for and occupied as the residence of
The the Chief ett agistrale with Court Room, te.
of the most or dinary
several scanthings oftimber need throughout extremely slight and the whole put to gether in the
to all similar. built here without efficient superintendence. In the year 1845 one half of the build-
houses
ing quently
and
A.
kind,
the
1
converted into
The
A
Debtors' Prison, and subse
mainder was
tude d
Q
ethough the utmost was
Gaoler's residence.
Love
to render is
C. yds
160 Digging foundations
C. feet
Debtors' Prison.
254
3
57
2780 Rough stonework in forendation 6608 Brickwork laid in
716 Pressed ashlar in plinth with
chamfered arices.
107 therth to Verandah chamfered
vrices
16 Stone bases to piers in Verandal
C. feet,
with chamfered arices
121⁄2 Plone dressing to loop holes 421⁄2 Dressed stone steps
8 D
Dressed ashlar to window sills weathered and the sated.
68 Stone dressing to windows sunt
for iron bans
371⁄2 Granite hearth stones rubbed and
fixed
840
Granite flagging for floors of bath
suitable for such purposes it
was perfectly im- the possible to arrange any thing satisfactorily for former both on count of the unsuitablenes of the plan and the insufficiency of the materials
hip, which to connect would have in- volved the reconstruction of the greater portion of it. 301 Brickwork baid in
the Building for the
and
waki
The inadequacy of
purposes of a place of confinement indeed is
Yds
470
circumstances
has been adopte
would
feet
30
quite apparent, but every means
to re
render it as
secure
AY
permit; several times at the desire of th is Exes Clancy
and
ndaks
verar
rvorlar
piers and arches to Verandahs Nough succe jointed in
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walls.
Houlding
af
187 134-
926
心
94
26
23
106
watercon
2
615-
192" girth
5126
278 32
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