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ao a. Steward for be regarded only the property of others, and as doing what arr merely

The whole I think best for preservation of the vessel and her machinery, till her destination be decided

1. She has been built altogether at the cost of the Special Fund. What re-nav being done to her is also being done at the expense of that Fund. And he let me know that clearly the hull and Engines (Colony whether Rebel hack for the off or 2. the Police Pifels Mras sanctioned by comot belong to different proprietors, and because the original cost of some construction from the Special Fund

Vide S.A. to the Duke of Buckingham - a proportion que 106.176 to keep that com be about which I am anxious 1 of 23 Oct. 1868. 540 9553-68. 110 12.

doubt, as otherwise I should not have thought much of the outlay. Colony retains and Keeps up the Steam launch, in preference, to reestablishing a disreputable Junte, as formerly anopp 'A. montable for rapid transport of Police but which the Government news compelled by its Bankrupt condition to be content with at that time. The Harbor Master taw naw and his Staff employ the launch when not required by the Police, and visit in her the different Marler Stations. The is not very well suited, it must be owned, for such work, which requires the Harbor Master to be absent frequently more than 36 hours at a time, whereas the Cannah is merely an open boat without any