CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2] — Page 373

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will complete the work satisfactanty

9.

He has been promised pay provisionally at the rate of £350 pr annum with the usual allowance for

chair coolies, and under the circum = stances I hope Your Lordship will approve this provisional expenditure. It is not, however, the only item in which I have found it

10.

recepary

to

seek extra advice and

en me

aid. M. Moorsom lately waited with the original plam and specificar tions of the Water Works at Pokefullum, suggesting therein certain alterations. I told him candidly, that I had not confidence sufficient in myself to advise on such a subject, for which

Estimates had been

2.0

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recently made

by himself in conjunction with the late Surveyor General, and that on the other hand I had not sufficient confidence

in him to accept his

suggested alterations in works of so much

,

importance, involving a total expendition of $200,000 . I have, therefore, by advice of my recentive Camel and with consent of the General, requested Sient. Colonel De Butt Commanding the Royal Engineers to report not madly on the suggestions of M. Morsom,

The state and progress of

but abso

The works

in

generally, and the probability

of their attaining the object sought, siz:- a sufficient supply of water for

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