"of the parties himself. I understand that " they would gladly pay an additional "proportional rental, if the ground thus "obtained could be deemed to them by "grant of Lease. Such a proceeding
"would add to the revenue of the Colony,
"and by the same means improvements " could perhaps easily be effected at no " cost to Government, such as the extension " of the Strand Road from the Liver "Bazaar, which, if the Land in front " of the Parade Ground were sold by
"Public Auction, would with great " facility be extended to the "Military Cantonments.
"It appears to me that a charge " for additional Land obtained by the " Levees of Marine Lots should be but " just and reasonable, since it is the "most ... productive, and our holder of
"Marine Lot ... would be permitted " to obtain additional Land without " paying for it; and what is right in the "one case is but just in the "other".
Land how since been sold at East Point and in front of the Parade Ground, and the Revenue thereby largely benefited, not merely from the considerable premium obtained, but by the additional annual Revenue in the shape of Land Rent.
One of the conditions on
also
of
which
the Lots in front of the Parade Ground now sold, was to the effect that purchasers must fill up the ground,
and build a Sea-wall and Strand Road of 25 feet width in front of their Lots, with the view of extending the
the Strand Road afterwards to the Westward,