will be done to the
holders of Marine Lots
by lodging
Measure as
and the
Judgment
by the local Gov
and
there appears
to him to be
no Reason to doubt that
it will conduce to the
Present and future advantage of the Colony and of the great body of its Inhabitants.
The case however it would appear in dealing with the claims of Individual
Land holders affected by the
Work that any special Circumstances exist which
ought to entitle them
to
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special consideration, the
Governor has been in
structed to cause such
Claims to be duly
and
equitably
adjusted, it being
understood that
the same law is
to be
understood that
-
Gov can give
his Sanction
to the supposition that unauthorized encroachments by private persons upon Public Property
can confer
any
title
of occupier which can prevail against the rights of the Crown or the public convenience, this