Foreign Office
Mr Shuck then exhibited Captain Meikit's authority in writing to sell the Land; and the sale was duly registered in the Land Office; and a certificate of the registry, of which the following is a copy, was delivered to me for six lots bought by me, and for which I immediately thereupon paid the purchase money.
"Land Office 4th Octo 1842
Sir,
I have the hour to inform you that the Bazar lots near Captain Morgan's Bazaar numbering from No 1 to No 6 have been transferred to your name and that they are subject to future regulations regarding Rent.
I have the honor to be Sir,
Your most obedient,
E.G. Reynolds
Inspector of Roads
signed
To R Webster Edge
While these events were in progress, I received an official communication from the Land Officer dated Government House 26th Nov. 1842- stating that by the terms of the grant of the Land.
I then immediately commenced the buildings; and for completing the public road; and as this ground has been transferred to me, I have to request that you will take immediate measures to remove the mass of soil &c then lying on the public road; I accordingly did so and at my own expense completed the public road in that vicinity.
On the 11th January 1842, upwards of a month after Sir Henry Pottinger's return from the North and by which time the Buildings I had in progress were in an advanced state without any previous communication whatever having been made to me on the subject, I received a Notification from Mr. Woosnam Acting Secretary to Sir Harry Pottinger stating that the transfer to me of these lots of Land would not be recognised: