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value of
1000 dollars, or to incur upon the land an outlay to that amount,
within a period of six months from
the date of sale.
of
This public condition had
been strictly complied
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from that put by the parties themselves- and, notwithstanding
the
public notification above quoted, consider the obscure expression,
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"built in within 6 months' should
mean that the
by one.
be
much than 4000 dollars having
been expended within the requisite
time
as
may
be
the ground at the present day.
Now,
it
appears that it was
on the receipt of this very private note,
that M. Johnston,
in the following
wrote his official letter to Captain Meik's attorney, authorizing
transfer, it does seem
reasonable
that I should be supposed, not only finding means of getting acquainted with this private note, passing officials of government, but having done so put upon it a different interpretation
buildings
be actually completed within that time. I have to express my
astonishment that the Colonial
Government finding there
in public record of
what
they
wished to establish, should have
recourse to such
a private
note.
brought to light in order to throw
some color
of justification
great injustice which had been committed on a private individual.
The Committee in their
Report directly do not refer to the
official letter of 26 Feb: in which
authorized
Meik
to make the entrying