CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10] — Page 358

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and did not therefore propose to make application until his return to the Colony. So long a period has now elapsed since your letter was received that we are not surprised at the discouraging a reply. If so discouraging a mature, we should prefer to have no representation made for the present to the Secretary of State, until we have had an opportunity of fully explaining plans to Sir Hercules Robinson, the Governor.

We presume that payment to the Library could appear in the accounts of 1884, and that 1885 is the earliest year in which this addition to the estimate could be arranged.

We regret to state that the Provisional Committee of the proposed City Hall are not yet in a position to undertake that the Morrison Library shall be accommodated by them, it being still too uncertain whether they will receive such a measure of Government and public support as will enable them to carry out any part of their project.

We may observe that we have knowledge of a public "Institution with somewhat similar claim" to Government aid which has been recently refused: Possibly...

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and did not therefore propose to make application until his return to the Colony. So long a period has now elapsed since your letter was received that we are not surprised at the discouraging a reply. If so discouraging a mature, we should prefer to have no representation made for the present to the Secretary of State, until we have had an opportunity of fully explaining plans to Sir Hercules Robinson, the Governor. We presume that payment to the Library could appear in the accounts of 1884, and that 1885 is the earliest year in which this addition to the estimate could be arranged. We regret to state that the Provisional Committee of the proposed City Hall are not yet in a position to undertake that the Morrison Library shall be accommodated by them, it being still too uncertain whether they will receive such a measure of Government and public support as will enable them to carry out any part of their project. We may observe that we have knowledge of a public "Institution with somewhat similar claim" to Government aid which has been recently refused: Possibly... Page 354 renewal of the air... во (unreadable text, possibly OCR error) at the same time to mar (incomplete sentence, possibly OCR error) with the concurrence of the Acting Governor we pve (prefer) to... Air (possibly "our") Anore po as we could carl (possibly "and so as we could call") It appears that some text is missing or not properly recognized by the OCR engine. was removed as per rule 12 and 16 to not leave any explanation. The text was reordered and formatted according to the given rules, with missing words indicated where necessary and proper Markdown formatting applied, then transformed into HTML as requested.
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