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Dock with 20

pecuniary

feet-

the fill with mt

Over

any

advance whatever and that if m

additional depth at the Cost of £ 3,000 per

foot

can be obtained that he will increase

sum required for

the

the depth of practicable to 24 feet, the additional

purpose being leaned to him by the Government. The Average expense

the sill of his present dock was

per foot-

of over

1800, and I consider that twice that-

£18

arount is a

fair

air estimate

for the last four

fict

which

аи

necessarily

loat-four much the

which

arity were

most cally of the whole work.

To obtain a depth of 24

defith of 24 feat

would admit a vessel of the Imperience

class all standing and the largest two decked

Shif

the Warrior etread out, is unquestionably

an object of paramount importance.

for

Their Lordships will obeerve that a ditë

a cock is reserved at the Coal Depôt at

Mowloon in a

assuming.

as a basis

a

the

for

very favorable situration but

expense of

an

eth Lamont's Dock

approximate Calculation

I shied put the Cast of

in length with 25

a. Dock 400

feet

feel of Water

of Water over the

Sill at £50,000. excelusive of the requisite

pumping

therefore

Machining Cassoon, 14, and

1

that it is a work which considering

for it

it

by

the comparatively unfrequent use for H. M. Ships their Lord ships will not think

it expredient to undertatio, when substitute can

enterprise.

be

До

good

a

provided by private-

I may add that Mr. Lamot is supported by the leapital of alle esos