I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's letter, No 528 of the 23rd Instant, and to say that I see not the least objection to the appropriation of the Ground in the Town of Check Chu described by Colonel Campbell, provided it be not used as a Parade Ground.
Should any part of it be cultivated, or should the people of the Town of Check Chu start any objections to the arrangement, I beg Your Lordship will direct that they may be referred to the Chief Magistrate, Land Officer, who will bring the matter to my notice.
The latter Officer is absent on Sick Certificate, or I would send him out to examine the Ground.
I return Colonel Campbell's Original letter.
I have &c,
(Signed) Henry Pottinger,
Major General.
The Lord Stanley,
&c. &c. &c.
Victoria, 26th October, 1843.
My Lord,
I had yesterday the honor to receive Your Lordship's letter of the 23rd Instant with its various enclosures regarding a site for a Barrack for 50 Men, which I suggested in my letter, No 76 of the 9th Ultimo, should be selected somewhere to the Eastward of the Gap.
I informed Your Lordship by my letter, No 79 of the 19th of September, that Messrs Jardine Matheson & Co did not think they could sell the Godown at the East without reference to Leighton's Will, without a present purchaser, and that they had offered to part with the site for the sum it cost them.
I have been so entirely occupied with ...