CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 123

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1209

despatch

now under reply Father Raimondi

had petitioned for a remision of the brown

appropriately

reconsidered.

12. In

Rent, $280. payable

442

my

despatch

No 442

of the 10th

om

account of the lot

5/65/18 telemary last I informed Your Grace that

.on

which the thoman batholie bathe chal

and the schools stand.

11. I think this request offers a seaamalle.

means of measuring the action of

Government

in

the matter, and I have

therefore directed him to be informed

that, subject entirely to Your Spaces

Sanction, and, in consideration of the expenses incurred by the Roman Catholic Mision i

in the education and relief of destitute children, I am willing to abate

the braum Pent payable

question to $50 per

on the lot in

amnum

five years, when the subject

for the next

be

can

in consideration of the

gratuitous

support and education

of

destitute

Orphan

children at the bonent

of

the Italian

Sisters of Charity. I had consented, subject to Your Grace's approval, to reduce for five years

the brown thent of the Lot on which the Convent stands from $160

to $20 per annum. This reduction added to that now

proposed for Saint Saviours

If

schools will make a total of $390.19.

ON

about £80 per.

not hesitate to

annum

and

I do

say that five times the

expenditure would probably be incured if the bolony had to undertake the