CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5] — Page 367

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provision whatever has been made,

I regret that the enclosure in my

Despatch N125 of

the 28th of December

1878 was not brought to

your

notice.

In that enclosure (the report of my statements when moving the second reading of the Estimates for 1879) will be found the following passage "In the vote for Works and Buildings

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His Excellency, referring

to

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item of $9,000 for sinking Fund for

Praya Works loan said - the works

are carried out from the special fund and we have to

repay

it

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but I do nother affinis In bis Z makes 13

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We contribute $9,000 per annum

and at the end

of

a certain untuber

of years the whole will be paid off-

the

I enclose the printed copy of Estimates which then paped the

Legislative Council._ the provision

for

the

sinking fund for the Prage Wall will be seen at page

32

under the heading Works and Buildings. Paragraph 2 of my Despatch N. 125 of 28th December 1878 explained how the destruction by Fire of the Printers establishment prevented

from sending you

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all the printed details at the

time, but the enclosure in that

Despatch

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