CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12] — Page 175

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a

sun.

of £1,000 should.

br. taken in the Estimates

towards the Construction of the. Browing haya. it is

also necessary

thr

of

in Conse

Consequenc

in annouS

opinion of the Legislative.

Council to take at the same.

time £5000 towards thr

the Jail and Completion of £2000 towards the Construction

of a Civil Hospital...On fair financial principles it es impossible . in the present state of the Colonial Porner. to devote any part of the Colonial funds to such works as

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the Jail the Civil Hospital or the Bowring Praya.. and a much more prosperous state of our financed

crs must

arrive before. such works

can be dratt with out of Colonial Revenue... But when-Your- Excellency orders

a Certain sum to br. sch

apart for

σκε

of these, the

Bowring Praya, the claims of the Jail and the Civil Hospital so immeasur

immeasurably.

surpass so far as the real

are

Exigencers of the belony concerned. those of a public work which can be postponed with

so