specially reserved for its site is now being levelled and prepared for the Commencement of the building, is at present used for a parade for the garrison but so soon as the orders we allude to shall be received it will be necessary to enclose it and to occupy it with materials and worksheds. We have therefore to request that you will be so good as to take such measures as you may consider proper to have the Naval Stores and Coal Depôt removed from the ground which they occupy in order that it may be cleared (and extended___ according to the plan that has been submitted to and approved by Her Majesty's Government) as a parade for the garrison and a place of recreation and assembly for the inhabitants of the Colony.
It is almost superfluous for us to add that any site in this Colony which is still unoccupied is at your disposal, and should you be aware of the particular one to which the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty refer in their Lordship's Instructions to Sir William Parker and it is possible to make it available, it will afford Your Excellency and us every gratification to meet your wishes in that respect.
We have to...(Signed.) Henry Pottinger, George D'Aguilar, Wm Caine..
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