CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857 — Page 371

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to be £1426

more.

The cenor of

the Governor's despatch

jled

led

eval

to infer, as

no doubt the

fact, that these

buildings were actually in hand, which it

most irregular

for him to have permitted, and which

could not have been

the case

if he had

sent home the plans and Estimates framed in the Autumn of 1855 in sufficient time for the Secretary of

State to

give

them

his consideration before

sanctioning them .

Instead

370

Instead of following

that course

ke

transmitted them

several months afterwards and informed the Secretary of State that the new Central

Station would be

habitable by the 1st

July 1857. M. Sabonakone

had consequer ty.

mean

no

of stopping

the work if he had..

wisked it.

On receipt of

to to Cleverly the Governor's Respated

C. B.

28 July/56

we consulted M?

Cleverly (who I obvenue only expressed

opinion upon

Ay

the

proposed

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