To the Editor of the "Nonra-Carva Dat News." servancy Board to point out that your Sin, am directed by the Coa. leading article of September 2 headed" The" Conservancy Contretemps" contains, due doubtless to an fect knowledge of the facts, the following very misleading and unjostifable paragraph a Bet ooordiog to paragraph XI of the Dredging Contract "The dredged material deposited according to Sec., IX, ¢ and d, shall be measured on shore within spaces surrounded by earthen, wooden or other fixed walla and after having drained the surface water."
Measurement of the mud in solution in barges a few minutes after it has been dredged must furnish very different results froma the contract method, and how does it come more favourable to the contractors has been adopted without any public For depo! tenders were invited in four different The H.C. herald and S. C. & C. Gazette.
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