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2.0.

incompetence generally as the tead

of a Department. The

numerons

Buildings

and repasis of Buildings under this Government

requie

The principal

share of the Inveyor General's attention. The Water Works at Poke fullum

an

ceptionably large Engineering

aw

works for this Colony. They have been moreover planned by estier parties

experintended by Mr Krydd

and are

an

officer trained to such employment,

and sent and from London exprefly to superintend them.

20.

I have marked this despatch

Confidential, merely that I might withdraw from the current notoriety of the office the necessarily

wed

uns ers

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observations which I have found it

ar

21.

The personal subjects

my duty to offer advaited to. There is, however, nothing

in this despatch which I have not

stated to Mr Moorson and Mr. Buckle, and to Cormeil, and nothing

my

which is not to be formed in some

the

mmmer aw

Memoranda which,

of

with little result, I am so frequently

sending to M. Mooroom. I shall havever adout briefly

in a

mumbered

despatch to the appointments for which

I aot Yan Tordship's approval.

I have the hover to be,

вид

My Lord

Mover Lordship's most obedient

humble

•ervant,

Frams Mandonnell

Governor.