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1 by her Majesty's Government, as Captain
Meik obtained permission to build
that ground
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on terms in which he failed"
and that the ground consequently reverted to the Crown. – To this communication
I replied, stating that ground rested on
my claim to the faith of the above
mentioned Government Documents, and,
that as the Government made it over to me,
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me that he still held the same
opinion as expressed in his former letter,
ly that Captain Meik having failed
in the fulfilment of the conditions, upon
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which he was permitted to build
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the right reverted to the Crown" - adding follows.
"and with reference to your
"claim, as based upon the fact of the transfer
"having been effectuated under
the Sanction
it could not now
nullify its
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act to my prejudice who had expended a
sum of money although my
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large
in the faith of it; - that
claim was not now
open to
challenge for any supposed default of Captain Meik, it was well known that he
had used almost unprecedented despatch
in his operations. the ground; and that, from a reference to the Land Office, I found that there was no record whatever
of any special terms attaching to this grant - In reply I received
a second letter from
M. Woodnam stating that he was
desired by his Henry
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of the Head of the Government, he desires
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me to intimate to you
that the confirmation
of such acts must still rest with Her
Majesty the Queen, to whose Government
"the circumstances of the case will hereafter.
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Without any
uncation
any further commen Sir Henry Pottinger then sent a written order to the Chief Magistrate to stop the
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farther progress of the buildings; and
that as Sir Henry Pottinger
intimate to me
"has adopted this course after giving the
subject the fullest consideration, he
did not intend to have a
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