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by Major Grant, the Deputy Adjudant General, and the third has, I believe been hired for the Survey Department.
I shall get rid of the difficulty that these houses might occasion to the proposed arrangement, by calling on the owners of them to sell them to Government, and giving locations instead, in other places. Should they decline to dispose of the Houses (but which I do not consider at all likely) they will be of course obliged to remove them.
I have pointed out to Mr. Gordon, that this Cantonment may extend as far back as the base of the Mountains, and that it will have four great roads leading into it from the "Queen's Road". One on the extreme left looking towards the Harbor. One on the extreme right, a third through the Canton Bazar, and the fourth through Morgan's Bazar.
I wish to reserve the rear of the Barracks being built, but this plan would encroach on "Government Hill" which is necessary for various Public Buildings (a Church, Court House, Post Office, Treasury etc.) that will hereafter have to be erected in the Colony, and therefore it is necessary to abandon that part of Lieutenant Butterton's plan.
It is my intention to recommend to Her Majesty's Government that as large an extent of land as may be possible, shall hereafter be reclaimed from that part of the Harbor.