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and surrendered, to Government preparatory to buying the aforementioned Lots. In consequence of the unnatural Rent at which it was held, it having run up at the said sale to over One Hundred Pounds per annum, undoubtedly owing to the few Marine Lots then offered for competition.
The improvements, a Sea Wall, and reclaiming from the sea about Thirty Feet by filling in, surrendered with this Lot, cost me One Hundred Pounds and the years Rent, and Law suit connected therewith, another Hundred Pounds.
and Marine Lot No.68.A., Fifty feet square, is the eastern half of the surrendered Marine Lot No.68, and bought by me at a sale of Crown Leases, March 1846. I was entirely seduced into buying this Lot; thus, there was no bid for it whatever, and being under the impression that Her Majesty's Government would build directly the Public Landing place said to adjoin it, and the Lots having been considerably improved since its first sale in 1844, (and that, at a cost to me), tempted me to buy it at the only price it could be bought; the upset price, so unfairly fixed at one rate for the whole of the waste Land in Victoria, without reference to locality or the sea Frontages in Victoria.
Its distance from Business may be imagined, when I relate, I benched, and broke a shipwright's yard on it, but it remained idle for a considerable time; at length, having a quantity of surplus Timber from the wreck alluded to, I built two two-storied Brick Houses on the Lot, but unfortunately in so doing, from want of timely notice from the Road Surveyor, I built the Verandahs of the said Houses in an irregular way, and they were pulled down by the Police, and the Building so defaced. Being so far from the Town, which is not likely to progress for the present, this Lot is a burden and hardship to me, and I pray you will alleviate its