CO129-151 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [7-8] — Page 85

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Surenjor Gounal with a request that he would be good enough

annemicate it to Mr Sydd), and

it

was

the 19th

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returned by him initialed

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-regards the continuance of

the-Contrad only to the period when

the works should be completed, it

may

be

as

well that I should

point out that the Surveyor General was wained repeatedly not only by You becellency but also by myself and especially when

manho

ago

the revised Estimates of 1871 were being prepared in October 1890, that with the completion of Reservoir Mr. Skydd's engagement

the

h

Sen the

four brings to

me light

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would terminate. That genteman

was

therefore being constantly

reminded of the period when his

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engagement world cease. He could not have been in

the

ignorance too of approaching termination of his labor, when the head of his depart -

ment was

As th

able to report upon

the

15th of May to the Government that the Work's "were virtually finished."

Wich these references to the

10.

original Agreement made in London in 1867 and to that subsequently entered into here in March, 1870, I may tumn to the points now at between the Government and Mr. Kydd:

isue

11.

Upar the 30th

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