CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2] — Page 111

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are

that would acervo

equally obvious;

The advantages to the public first as regando appearone present state of the Bluff is an

ejesore

a

- The

to the Community; from dirty ragged hillside concret

covered

wich raust wreds and shaggling.

bushes it will become a handsome

strudure and the bushes that noie

hide all manner

of abomination

and filen left there

by

Cookies, sailor

away -

collects

and others will be cleaved

The open ditch that now co carry off avaler

but dow nor

water and

refuse from the hill will be replaced

by

a

large covered dram and thus I the whole neighbourhood will gair

in purity of air, - in cleanliness and health; on this froint I request

in

the perusal of enclosure marrted C.

The

(10.

of the building site on the North side of the Bluff would be restrictions the Government

subject to any

might are fit to imprese and the culling

away of the Bluff, the building of the

selaining

not

svall and of the drain decould

enly be done at

under the

è but

my expense sufrencision and according? to the plans if so desired of the Offices of the Government

In consideration of the advantages I enumerate të the Military and the Public I vonterre to hope for o favorable reply to my proposition

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