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439

should be carried out.

The Company in due time submitted a plan for approval which was laid before the Executive Council on the 25 January, and having received the signature of my Predecessor, was returned to the Company and they proceeded. When about 100 feet of the Pier had been finished the first opening for the brab was made, and it was seen that instead of being forty feet - it measured only twenty-two feet in breadth. Engineering advanced, and the Specifications which had not been supplied, were called for, and examined. It then appeared that the Plan only provided for openings of twenty-five foot each, and that, consequently, the Company were justified in the course which they had adopted.

The Specifications were laid before the Executive Council, and I learnt that in so far as the General, the Acting Attorney General, and Mr Cecil Smith were concerned (who attended the Council when the Plan was signed) their concurrence had been given in the belief that the openings were to be of forty feet, each, and that explanation a statement was made at the Meeting relative to the expression...

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439 should be carried out. The Company in due time submitted a plan for approval which was laid before the Executive Council on the 25 January, and having received the signature of my Predecessor, was returned to the Company and they proceeded. When about 100 feet of the Pier had been finished the first opening for the brab was made, and it was seen that instead of being forty feet - it measured only twenty-two feet in breadth. Engineering advanced, and the Specifications which had not been supplied, were called for, and examined. It then appeared that the Plan only provided for openings of twenty-five foot each, and that, consequently, the Company were justified in the course which they had adopted. The Specifications were laid before the Executive Council, and I learnt that in so far as the General, the Acting Attorney General, and Mr Cecil Smith were concerned (who attended the Council when the Plan was signed) their concurrence had been given in the belief that the openings were to be of forty feet, each, and that explanation a statement was made at the Meeting relative to the expression...
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439

should be carried out.

کچھ

The Company

in due time

submitted a plan for approval which

laid before the Executive Corail

en

the 25

January,

and having

received the signature of my Predecessor,

il

A v no

and

returned to the Company

-proceeded. When about 100 feet of the

the work-

b

Pier had been finished the first

opening for

brab

was mode, and

seen that instead of being

it

forty feet-

it

feel

only twenty-twoo

ensued,

in breadsh. Engning avaned, and

the Specifications which had not been

eupplied,

Ilan

was

were

called

for,

and the

examined. It then

appeared that the Plan only provided

for openings of twenty-tive foot each, are that, consequently, the Company

and

were

justified in the cause which they had adopted.

The Specifications

J

wvere

laid

before the Executive Canal, and I learnt that in far as the General, the Acting Attorney General), and Mr Cecil Junch were concerned (who attended the Corneil when the Plavii

was

emcurrence hat

signed) their been given in the

in the belief that the openings

shuan

m

The plan were

Ov

no

of forty feet, each, and that explanation a statement was made (: at the Meeting relative to the

expref

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