under the notice of His Excellency I shall take the liberty of very briefly recapitulating the facts

The land

Mock, about

1 fine.

wel

.

granted to Capt

18/12 and be had

incurred considerable expense

outhing and building upon it, when,

being from

Sickness

obliged to leave.

it was bought by me for

the Colony, it

qbe dollars, under the sanction of

AM Johnston Esqre these acting

Governor, who in his

official

letter

of date Oct. 10 1842 stated that as it appears Capt Meik made every effort in

"his power to create Buildings

and as

"the lots alluded to; and

"the partially

"Ruined Walls likewise show the same,

"I have desired the Survey Inspector to

Register the Sale

"of these lots in

The transfer

live.

I

accordingly

made at the Survey office, and I hold the

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Land Inspector's Certificate thereof. I immediately commenced operations

to complete the buildings, and such

progress, I received official letter from the hand

of

Inspector of

date Nov. 26. to the

effect

that it was intended to alter the line

of

Road from that

originally contemplate- and that I must consequently remove the line of my buildings

further back; but was at

liberty

to supply the ground thus

by

Pt.2

additional

(

surrendered.

on the

at the back:

all of which I did and completed the

public Road in

the

vicinity.

about a month

the

time

afterwards - by which

my buildings

were

state - I was much surprised to receive

His Worship's

intimation from Mr. Woor

Acting Secretary.

that the transfer

which had taken place under

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