...The same acknowledgment is due to General Sir Hastings Doyle, Commander of the Forces at Halifax, and to Major Robertson, Military Secretary there, who...consider it desirable to call attention to the manner ifi which the records and official documents are kept. In Montreal the vaults under the old Government...

...for the year 1872. His observations on the subject are worth reproducing. This is what he said : " I consider it desirable to call attention to the manner in which the rerords and official documents are kept. In Montreal, the vaults under the oH Goverment House are unfit...

...Montreal and Quebec (the two latter cities more than once), Halifax, St. John and Fredericton . . . I consider it desirable to call attention to the 'manner...kept. In Montreal, the vaults under the old government court house . . . and unfit for the purpose to which they are applied. The air is damp and foul, so...