4.
' that we must depend upon "our taval superiority for
the "complete security of our future "commercial establishment in "that Island" and adds that 'these should not be impeded For dislocated by Military ""Works or Dockyards."
Dispatch M1 (Military) 15th March, 1844. to Sir John Davis is to the same effect,
specially remarking upon the inexpediency of encumbering "the City of Victoria with Military "Works or Dock-yards."
desires
His Excellency therefore.
me to state that as
nothing has occurred which could
Cause
any
alteration
of
the
he
opinions there expressed. cannot consent to the.
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appropriation of this valuable ground for any purposes other than those sanctioned by ter Majesty's Government.
At a conference with the present Commanding Royal Ingineer regarding the ground. in question His Excellency learned that the Board of Respective Officers found their claim to the ground in consequence of
the I tore- houses formerly standing thereon, which they imagined to have been the property of Ordnance, and by the fact of the Ordnance map of the Island approved by Sir J. Davis showing the boundary dranom to include a portion of the area alluded to.
the
It is perfectly evident_n