3
178
1842.
OLD
far
I am able to ascertain –
ae date
but the precise found.
d
may
in the records of
220
doubt be
the Land office.
suced, operations
He immediately comite
cutting building, and mourred on
in cu
the ground
a fact
expense of about 700 dollar.
I avcertained frorn
the receipts by
zvere
handed over to
ze
after I bought the
the Chinese Contractor, which
grane. The Contractor finding
Grade
a
bad bo
bargain,
Captain Meith having
Island- the
cvere
in
the
be heard
absconded; -
seen after left the
ground impreventati
the end of september of the same year, bought by me from his Attorney for 960 dollars.
then
The following
were the Regulations
in existense regarding
the sale
in
and transfer of lands, as published the Government Gazette for general information. By Notification, digued by
the Land officer, of date May 2nd 1842,
it
ve
intimated that "ewithe a
" view to the prevention of future
ture quie
"understandings and difficultion, Sir Henry Pottinger is pleased to ... no sales of Land are to be
" direct that
" made by the holders of grants to other
" parties, except with the Krawledge of
" the Land officer; and that sales
theat
may
overy have been made, or
axcay
" be made in future, unless legisteres in the Land Office, shall be held
And by the publishia,
to be invalid."^_
instinctions to the Sound officer of date 27th of the
outte, issued
by Sir Henry Follinger sharkly before his departure for the Nooth, there is the fathering clause segaming
following transfer of Lands: "You
will register
your office all sales and trampers of Sand in conformity with the