It is but just to myself and Department that Forward should make these few serious remarks even in a few illustrations strictly confined to an estimate or detail of services to be performed for the surface repair of a sheet, it gives however but a view of the insufficient staff with which I am provided, and the impossibility of carrying out this estimate effectively so necessitating me with the means promised.
It being under present circumstances undesirable to increase my regular staff, I propose for this special service to obtain the sanction of His Excellency to the employment of some intelligent Portuguese who will be able to bear exposure to the sun better than an Englishman and to place under him 2 first-class Chinese overseers and 2 second-class and a gang of coolies. That I have upwards of 20 miles of streets in the city alone, these men would soon clear...
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