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most natural and inexpensive position is on the
surface, but the traffic of the leading thoroughfares
in St. James's Parish being so great and incessant,
I doubt if room can or ought to be spared for the
purpose, and if they are not in the leading
thoroughfares they are comparatively useless. This is
a subject that cannot receive too much consideration
from the Vestry or its Officers, and I think no
expense or pains should be spared by them while
the power to construct them is exclusively their
own, and it appears to me the best way to ensure
that power remaining their own is to exercise it
judiciously.
I have a most satisfactory duty to perform in
reporting the completion of the Vestry Hall and
Offices, and that the whole of the work gives
undoubted evidence of being executed in the best
manner. No settlements or defects, such as are
sometimes unavoidable, have appeared, and from the
time that has elapsed since its completion, I do not
anticipate we shall find any now.
The Vestry have cause to congratulate themselves
on the manner this building has been carried on
and completed.
An attempt to enumerate the whole of the
works, small and great, executed in the department
with which I have the honor to be connected would
fill a moderately-sized volume, but reference to the
minutes of proceedings of the Works Superintendence
Committee would not only shew what has