supposition that as the land is at present
useless, such expenses as I may
incur in clearing
and
levelling it, with be
reimbursed to me, should His Excellency hereafter
find occasion to resume the land.
In reply to the concluding part
of your letter, informing
me that His Excellency
the Government
of Her Majesty's
will be happy to submit for favourable consideration any offer of additional rent for the land
in question, should I prefer making. I beg respectfully to state that,
the ground is at present utterly useless, owing to it's being covered with large masses of rock, the clearing and levelling of which will cost about £50., and that even when all this is completed, the peculiar
shape of the ground, (being
a narrow slip
a few feet in breadth), must prevent it's being of much use to any one, and to myself only for planting trees as ornaments,
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I find it difficult to name any sum as indicative of a real value, for rent, but in order to complete a better, I should be happy to pay at the rate of
at the rate of £5 (Five)
per acre.
Victoria,
I have, &c.
(Signed) C.J. Braine:
November 23rd 1848.
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