This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ... it must have occupied a far longer period, and have been much less satisfactorily accomplished. I am bonnd to add that, a similar disposition to promote the object in view was manifested by all the officers under his orders. Treasury Minute. November 20, 1846. White to Commissary-General Sir E. Coffin, and state that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ... it must have occupied a far longer period, and have been much less satisfactorily accomplished. I am bonnd to add that, a similar disposition to promote the object in view was manifested by all the officers under his orders. Treasury Minute. November 20, 1846. White to Commissary-General Sir E. Coffin, and state that their Lordships have had under their consideration his Report, dated the 14th instant, giving a general view of the results of his inquiry into the circumstances of the distress occasioned by the failure of the potato crop in the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland, as well as his and Captain Pole's previous communications, containing a detailed narrative of their proceedings. State that their Lordships are entirely satisfied with the manner in which this inquiry has been conducted by Sir E. Coffin, and they have likewise noticed with approbation the zeal and intelligence with which Captain Pole executed that portion of the duty which was assigned to him by Sir E. Coffin Their Lordships will now proceed to notice separately each of the heads under which the measures suggested by Sir E. Coffin, for the alleviation of the present calamity, have been recapitulated by him at the close of his Report. 1st. "The application of the assistance to be afforded to proprietors by the "Drainage Act, to be rendered as easy and comprehensive as the security of "public and individual interests may permit." Their Lordships became, at an early period of these proceedings, impressed with the opinion that the Act 9th and 10th Vic., cap. 107, intituled an Act to authorise " The Advance of Public Money to a limited Amount, to promote "the Improvement of Land in Great Britain and Ireland by Works of "Drainage," would furn...
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