Marine Lots that had been sold or
up to that time, and
or granted I found the Lot in
Question the last on the list, with the
rental £42.10
against it : satisfied
with this, I completed the purchase.
On the 29
of March 1842, a
Land Committee, of which Capt.
Malcolm
was
the head,
was appointed, and about the 8th or 18th
of April, those
gentlemen
came to me, and, without
Solicitation, told me
341 feet
had been granted to me, and I am informed by Mr. C. B. Stewart that this Committee left no record of their proceedings.
The allotment to the Westward
to Mr. White in
exchange
for land to Eastward of Messrs. Lindsay's
House resumed
— Blue Book, pp. 378 & 379.
and immediately
Any
I
might take it
more
to Westward, as
Capt.
was
not reserving that piece of ground as they originally intended.
was
This additional 4 feet was thereupon marked, by inserting a stone, which boundary
was adhered to in
the
retaining wall which I built
against
the Queen's Road. I was deprived of this
4
feet in
consequence of those being the Land Officer's record of its having
been
immediately
by Government,
the Spot
became a
depository for all the Earth excavated
from the
neighbourhood ; by this the original
in the ;
tide-marks were
and
were obliterated,
there existed no means
consequently equitably remeasuring
it had been necessary,
and
of
the Land, if
which I deny,
there exists in the Land
Office a Diagram of its original shape
and measurement.
I have hitherto taken no
measures to obtain redress,
but some
correspondence has passed between Me
Mr. Cleverly
and
myself on the subject,