price demanded is considered by the Acting Surveyor General extravagant.
I have therefore not resumed the old Lot as was intended.
I may here remark that this case has been already alluded to by me in Despatch No 125 of 29th July.
As the question of power to sell the recovered space in front of Marine Lots is a very serious one, and will affect Crown Rights to a considerable extent, I am induced to ask for your decision on this point.
It is impossible to allow such space to lie unoccupied and unimproved and, yet without disposing of it at Public Sale the value cannot be correctly ascertained; and inasmuch as the Lease of the Back Lot defines the full