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the views of the Secretary of State referred to above, & directed that Mr. Enclosure 4.

Keswick should be informed that I consider the arrangement now proposed to be perfectly satisfactory/

and that I would recommend the : renewal of the Government grant of twelve hundred dollars ($1200)

per annum.

5.

Looking to the monetary difficulties under which the City Hall now laboure, and to the fact that the Museum and Library → form a very useful and deserving

Public

Public Institution, which would

certainly be assisted Government in every

by the in every other

Colony

I trust that Your Lordship will approve of my placing the former vote on the Supplementary Estimates of the current year.

6.

entirely

The Excentive Council

concurs with

my

views on

sympathy

this subject, and is also in with the reluctance of the Committee of the City Hall to revert to the system of requiring payment for admission to Publie Museums and

Libvarice