CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6] — Page 226

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The building should be taken down as soon as possible. Having inspected several sites available for building purposes, the Committee has arrived at the conclusion that there are none more desirable than that on which the Office now stands, for the following reasons:

If sold, the present site would only realize, with the building on it, about Ten or Twelve Thousand Dollars ($10,000 or $12,000), while the cost of resuming lots that would have been suitable, it was found, was much in excess of that sum.

It would have been equally difficult and expensive to construct a foundation on any of the available sites as on the present one. In no case did the sites offer a more convenient position than the present one for the Harbor Master's Office, and in some cases they were very inconveniently situated.

It having been decided to recommend the erection of the building on the present site, the Surveyor General was requested to furnish the...

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The building should be taken down as soon as possible. Having inspected several sites available for building purposes, the Committee has arrived at the conclusion that there are none more desirable than that on which the Office now stands, for the following reasons: If sold, the present site would only realize, with the building on it, about Ten or Twelve Thousand Dollars ($10,000 or $12,000), while the cost of resuming lots that would have been suitable, it was found, was much in excess of that sum. It would have been equally difficult and expensive to construct a foundation on any of the available sites as on the present one. In no case did the sites offer a more convenient position than the present one for the Harbor Master's Office, and in some cases they were very inconveniently situated. It having been decided to recommend the erection of the building on the present site, the Surveyor General was requested to furnish the...
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4.

building should be taken down

as

soon

possible.. Having

inspected several sites available for building purposes, the

Committee has arrived at the

conclusion that there

are none

more desirable than that

which the Office

ᏅᏤ .

now stands,

for

the

following

reasons:

If sold, the present site

would only realize with the

building

on

it about Ten or

Twelve Thousand Dollars ($10,or 12000)

while the cost of resuming lots that would have been

suitable, it

པའི་ -V༨. A.UCYC

Avas

1

was

found

on

much in excess

}

J 222

of

that sum.-

It would have

as

difficult and

been equally

expensive to construct as

foundation on any of the

available sites

present-

did

a

one

any of

more

In

no

the

Case

the sites offer

convenient position

than the present one for the

Harbor Master's Office, and

in so

at me

cases

they

were

very

inconveniently situated..

It having

been desided

to recommend the erection of

the

W

building

on the present site,

was

the Surveyor General requested to furnish the

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