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WATER COMMUNICATION IN CANADA.
3 Extract of a Letter from Lord BERESFORD to the Right Honourable William
Huskisson, respecting the Rideau Canal; dated 17th March 1828.

"ADVERTING to that part of your letter which limits the Expenditure on
the construction of the Rideau Canal to the same amount as was voted by Parliament
for the last year, I beg to call your attention to a Report from Lieutenant
Colonel By, which has come to me since I received your letter, and which I annex
hereto. By this you will see, that Lieutenant Colonel By could not have been
made acquainted with the intended limitation of expenditure for this year, in
sufficient time to prevent his making the contracts he therein communicates to have
been completed. Those contracts having been made, and the contractors in all
probability having made their arrangements, and even commenced operations, we
can only be liberated from those engagements (I speak of those made 1st February
last) by very onerous concessions, which would be a dead loss; and you will see
that the contracts formerly made are in full execution, and that on these the expenses
from the 1st November 1827 to 22d January 1828 (less than three months)
is £. 28,614. 7s. 2d. and these apparently not the best months for working; the
expenses on the new contracts must be added to this, when you will see how little
way the £. 41,000 you propose this year will go towards defraying the now inevitable
expenses, whatever may be determined on, that is, whether you stop those
contracts, or go on with them. In short, it is obvious that Lieutenant Colonel
By has laid down work for this year that will take about a third of the sum he
estimated for the whole, or about £. 140,000 (taking into consideration what has
Is this the
whole or the
1/3 only?
been already expended), as the contracts go to complete the whole in three years
from January last."

Identifier: | JB/008/146/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Date_1	1828-06-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	008	Main Headings	official aptitude
Folio number	146	Info in main headings field	canada for official aptitude - colonial expence
Image	003	Titles	canada / an estimate
Category	printed material	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	/ f2 / f3 /
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[star motif] g2 1825]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1825
Notes public		ID Number	3250
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