Brian Condon: Letters and Documents in 19th Century Australian Catholic History

[Source: Adelaide Archdiocesan Archives copy. Incomplete. Draft?]

Sir,

Allow me to beg of you to submit and recommend this proposal which I now presume to make to the favorable consideration of His Excellency the Governor, namely that if His Excellency should be pleased to grant, to trustees to be nominated by himself for the Roman Catholic inhabitants of this town, the large plot of ground on which the Catholic Chapel is now erecting and bounded on the North by the walls of the Government Demesne, on the East by Mrs. Riley's estate, on the South by the Government Garden and on the west by Hyde Park, reserving however a road of 70 feet in breadth at the N *  * to lead to Government Demesne and Wolloomolloo estate, and another of the same breadth at the south border to lead to Government Gardens and the said estate, I shall engage to expend, within five years from the date of the grant of a written promise of a grant of the same, five thousand pounds in useful and ornamental buildings for the Public Service.

If satisfactory security be required for the fulfilment of this engagement, I hope to be enabled to procure it but the best security, in my mind, to which I should have no objection, would be to withold the grant until the proposed conditions of it shall have been actually realised.