9.
329
with
actually put in possession of it; he objects however
to the
assessment on the whole lot being taken at the average of the July 1844 sale, instead of the
3.
upset price, but under the circumstances of the
grant
there
is
or loan I must disagree
any
with him, and
hardships in it. I conceived it can
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Cominon
" all other Lots on the sea shore I
measured this, and defined
the line of high
water mark, and I did not perceive that any
had been collected on
if
the belief that high
only
obliging him to pay the average price for the
be in obliging
portions of land
added to the
original Lot; those
exclusive of the portion added at Dr. Young's
request, comprise
an area
of 8467 sq. feet, which,
calculated at the difference between the upset and average price, would make a reduction of £11.14.3 upon the Lot
I do not see the reason
of appending Messrs.
Lene and Pedder's statement; it was never denied:
Dr.
that the ground was ever given to Dr Young, measured by Lieut. Sargent.
02
Mr. Scott, Marine Lot No. 56. The same
remarks as the foregoing are applicable to this Lot in a certain degree; all Lots
measured that a new
Survey
were to in
imperfectly
was demanded; in
debris
the adjoining lot to lead to
water mark
was
changed in
any degree from what it had been ages before;
with
regard conceived to be the line claimed, or
to the frontage, I measured what I
between himself.
the probable boundary
and Mr. White
No 4. Administrators of the late C. Mr Knight. J. Lot 44.
Mr. Mr Knight purchased the property alluded
to in 1843, not 1842. It is stated that Mr.
assured him that, if the adjoining
Gordon
land was allotted
that,
out, it would be in large building or suburban Lots; I cannot imagine the Surveyor General saying because, in the first-place, a survey
at the time, and
was
being
made)
nothing was definitely fixed until Her Majesty's Government
January, 1844, and secondly, Her.
positively forbad any grants of suburban Lots.
There is a
fice and uninterrupted right