294 TIMERRI. 
July oth, 1846, Mr. WM. ARRINDELL was appointed 
standing counsel tothe Lamaha Committee. Somedisputes 
arose at this time between members of the Committee as 
to the legality of placing tunnels under the canal to con- _ 
neét two estates. Mr. PETER ROSE took the opinion of 
Mr. ARRINDELL, who stated in writing that “ Neither the 
Committee nor Curators possess any power to grant to 
any person permission to put in tunnels to carry water 
under the canal from one estate to another for the pur- 
pose of drainage or navigation.” It will be interesting 
to modern lawyers to learn that Mr. ARRINDELL charged 
$25 for this opinion. At this time the annual estimate 
of the expenses of the canal were as follows :— 
Clearing Canal ae ee au + $1,000 00 
Repairing Stop-off ... wae = a 250 00 
Salaries... eas ae ont aon ae 1,442 00 
Law expenses ... se ie sia ae 133 CO 
$2,825 00 
So much mortality had attended the first introduétion 
of Portuguese labourers into the colony from Madeira 
and the Azores that the medical authorities were at their 
wit’s end to devise some remedy or preventive, Dr. 
BLAIR in a letter to the Committee advocated placing 
newly arrived Portuguese on the pegass land which bor- 
dered parts of the canal, as an experiment as to whether 
peat land is a preventive against intermittent fever, 
This strange proposal met with no favour from the Com- 
mittee, notwithstanding that it was supported in a long 
speech by Mr. GORDON of Be/ Air ; and they refused to 
have anything to do with it. 
February 27th 1849.—Mr. GEORGE ANDERSON, pro- 
prietor of Pln, Og/e, asked to join the canal. The Com- 
