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immediately, I made a small advances and-
Marine Lot 40/ became an inc.
of course all my neighbours
371
purpose,
A J
the
storied wood Houses, but to no
Tabular Statements hereunto annexed, will shew.
matter
about to build,
All the adjoining Property
was
surrendered;
alas
for
my
I took the deed and commenced; unfortunately, I found on after inspection of the lot that
Front Boundary
for it
Sea
Twenty feet in the beyond high water mark; nothing daunted,
I commenced a wrought Stone foundation; caution and the exposed sea frontage demanded one Thousand Piles or more to be driven, before laying a
progressed, Earth
the work
Stone;
excavated and
brought to fill in the Lot, and to my surprise,
was
when
arry foundation. Fifty feet square complete, my neighbours had not yet begun.; flagged to; for later, the foundation
completed and useless; found out to
tva s
my
Lorrow
I
the irremediable error had committed; time
rolled on, squatting was prohibited, Money
too valuable to
go.
Was
with a building suitable to
the Foundation. In hopes of catching for Tenants the disturbed Chinese Squatters, I built four two-
me! I cling to my outlay, and must dearly am I paying therefore. I pray you will consider
the injustice of the upset value being fixed for
the same price Frontage; the
this isolated sea
A
the
Frontages immediately in the vicinity of shipping
and Commerce.
Marine Lots 1060, 50 and 51, I bought at the same sale; so great
and so sanguine thereof
was
the competition,
were we
Commerce would increase;
no-
that however, luckily,
I
did not build; eighteen months rent and Fees
was my
Fine on
this job.
On Inland Lot No 285 the same.
Marine Lot No 68, One Hundred Feet
square, was
bought by me in December 1844,