Srr,—I hi the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th ulto., enclosing translation of a dispatch addressed to you by the Taotai complaining of the Council having bunded the foreshore of Lot 112 U.S. Consulate, and requesting you to instruct them to have the bunding remove and the foreshore dug out, and to prohi anyone in future from depositing rubbish at this place, so that the navigation of the creek may not be interfered with.
Ta reply Ihave to request that_you will inform the Taotai that the Council have not filled in any part of the foreshore of Lot 112 since the creek was dredged, and the line of the banks defined in 1889.
As to the bunding which the Taotai wishes to have removed it is simply w stone facing placed upon the slope of the foreshore, as it was left, when the dredging of the creek was completed, so that it cannot interfere in any way with' the boat traffic, and instead of being an obstruction to, it will rather faci-lirate the tidal ebb and flow in the creek, as it will prevent any further accretion to the foreshore.
As mentioned in the letter which the Chairman of the Council addressed to the Senior Consul in May, 1890, the Council undertake to remove from the bed of the creek any broken bricks or tiles which may fall into it, and that the channel of it shall not be allowed to become narrower or shallower at this part. have the honor to be, Consul General de France, and Senior Consul.
Lighting—Ast r Road.—Report by the Engineer is submitted p-luting out that there are no lights in the Astur Road, and as an application has been made by a resident there to have it lighted he recommends that two gas lamps should be placed in i Decided to have this done.
The Meeting then adjourned.
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