General sclation to a piece of ground (colound
green
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the
the enclosed plan) Weet- of "Main Guard and bounded on the north
by the Sea and on the south side by the Queen's Road.
2.
In
forwarding this
emespondence to you, I beg leave to remark that the "Respective officers have not been consulted
in
this instanes which.
in
should have been done, and
the
my opinion
-if
this
and been the case I consider that, from
general spirit of the Pronance Regulations relative to or trance property,
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the sanction of the Master Aseneral
Amorable Brand is indispensable before any transfer of land or other property
my
with
to Her Majesty's brdnance can propriety be entered into between any parties
3. The Plots of Ground in question, is I beg to observe the only space (and
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it is
very
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limited, in extent, measuring
4 Meres 13 Pules) that exists in the neighbourhood of the Cantonment or is at
all
th
Il' eligible for building purposes, and as the propriety of erecting a large defensive Battery
this side has been long contemplated and indeed proposed, I am strongly of opinione that it should not be suffered to fall out- of the hand of Her Majesty's Ordnance as it is impossible to say how soon
other
for
what
Military purposes it may possibly be
required.
It
may with advantage be cleaned
and levelled, (but not Ishould
suggest by the Colonial Sovemment, who would thereby establish hereafter a claim to it) by the Royal Engineer department: and Sece
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objection to its being and as a public- promenade and a drill- ground (the latter bring such wanted by the Troops) until it may be required for other ai
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