But I had once an analogous question about the resumption of an inland Lot. It had no number. I think that it could not have had a lease of it. About 1844 the Government altered the line of the Queen's Road, so as to take it through my house on that Lot, and I declined to have it taken down without compensation. The then acting Surveyor General, Mr. Cleverly, determined the amount of compensation, and gave it to me.
It did not come to dollars and cents at all. I said to him, "If you will give me frontage I will take the house down," and, after some trouble, he gave it to me. It never came to a computation at all. I should think that the difference between the amount of my loss and that of my compensation was 3000 Dollars at least in my favour.
It consisted of two Crown Leases of some of the most valuable land in the Colony, the two Lots 105 and 126. The then Governor was Sir John Davis. He was actually in Hong Kong at the time. These two Leases were both granted in 1845 - all the present Crown Leases were issued for the first time in those two years, 1844 and 1845.
To the third Question in the Schedule I can only answer in the negative. My repugnance to the proposal to allow Marine Lot Holders to do the work would not be removed or mitigated at all by the Government undertaking to construct so much of the work as they might be willing to undertake.
As to the fourth question I should certainly think that
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