CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12] — Page 142

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with the War Office regarding the acquisition by the Military Department, of the

Lazarette

on

Cotter's Island, from which I note

that this Government will

receive as

compensation

in

an

amount equivalent to the cost of the building in question.

It is unfortunate that

it should have been considered

necessary to remove the Lazarette

as it has been

found

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impossible to find a suitable site for it elsewhere,

and the construction of a hulk has involved the Colony in large expense.

I find that in 1888

2

a mixed Board of Civil and

Military Officers was appointed to consider the question of the removal of the Lazaretto from Stonecutters Island.

In their report, copy of which is in Enclosures 1888, it was recommended that a hulk should

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with the War Office regarding the acquisition by the Military Department, of the Lazarette on Cotter's Island, from which I note that this Government will receive as compensation in an amount equivalent to the cost of the building in question. It is unfortunate that it should have been considered necessary to remove the Lazarette as it has been found 141 impossible to find a suitable site for it elsewhere, and the construction of a hulk has involved the Colony in large expense. I find that in 1888 2 a mixed Board of Civil and Military Officers was appointed to consider the question of the removal of the Lazaretto from Stonecutters Island. In their report, copy of which is in Enclosures 1888, it was recommended that a hulk should
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with the War Office regarding the acquisition by the Military Department, of the Lazarette on &tonecutters - Island, from which I note that this Government will receive As compensation in an amount equivalent to the cost of the building question. in It is unfortunate that it should have been considerex necessary Lazarette to remove the as it has been found 141 found impossible to find a suitable site for it elsewhere, and the construction of a hulk has involved the - -Colony in large expense. I find that in 1888 2 a mixed Board of Civil and was Military Officers appointed to consider the question of the removal of the Lazaretto from Stonecutters Island. In their report, copy of Enclosures. 1888. may which Jenelose, it was - recommended that a hulk should
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with the War Office regarding the acquisition by the Military Department, of the

Lazarette

on

&tonecutters -

Island, from which I note

that this Government will

receive As

compensation

in

an

amount equivalent to the cost of the building question.

in

It is unfortunate that

it should have been considerex

necessary Lazarette

to remove the

as it has been

found

141

found impossible to find a suitable site for it elsewhere,

and the construction of a hulk has involved the -

-Colony in large expense.

I find that in 1888

2

a mixed Board of Civil and

was

Military Officers appointed to consider the question of the removal of the Lazaretto from Stonecutters Island.

In their report, copy of

Enclosures.

1888.

may which Jenelose, it was -

recommended that a hulk

should

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