2.
Despatch above referred to. The correspondence between the Board and the Surveyor General consequent thereon is forwarded for - Your Lordship's information-
2.
The ostensible object for which the respective Officers lay claim to this ground is stated to be for building certain quarters for Staff and Heads
of Departments, as well as for the erection of a powerful Battery of I believe 24 Guns. - I have already in Paragraphs 34 and 41 of my Despatch A2 53 of the
1253 23rd May 1849, expressed my opinion of the inutility of - constructing Buildings of this nature... With regard to the quarters for Officers, I have reason
NT
we leter from to believe that the Lords of Her
(see
a Board bn the
a
office of thing cresty's Treasury
to Sir Charles Trevelyn, dated, 24th October,
1850.-)
are not
3.
3
de luchas only likely to countenance their
erection; and with respect to the proposed Battery Farm more than ever satisfied that it- would be a most useless but costly work...
3.
As however the respective Officers have intimated ou intention to refer the matter to the Master General of the Orduance, I think it proper to lay before your Lordship briefly the real state
of
the
ease, which I think will
prove that the ground
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dispute is not, and never has been, Orduance property- In June and July, 1843, Pir