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It's formal assignation to
the Crown:
ce
with touch
I am
sure that your proceedings
in this matter have
been dictated by your usual zeal for the public
service, & it is with my great regret that I have felt myself unable to approve the course you have adopted.
Although it would have
been proper that the
Military
Authorities
should have applied to the Governor
to erect huts for the
use
of
the soldiers.
Napier's Range,
it would have been
clearly the duty of the Gov. to have given prompt assent to their application (as a measure of a merely temporary character)
unless he was able at
once
to point out a
spot equally satisfactory to the Officers who were
responsible for the health of the troops.