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"at once to point out a spot equally satisfacting
to the
-officers "health of the Troops!
who
were
responsible for the
to
For that reason it appeared.
10.
Your Grace
"unfortunate that on account of a point of ~form this arrangement which was considered " requisite by those whose opinion must be "taken as conclusive in such matters, should becoming a matter of
"have been delayed by becoming "Controversy."
But I have shewn that the Military Authorities have themselves admitted, what the experience of two Summers has
proved, that "the arr
arrangement
now
which was -
"considered requisite by those whose opinim
"must be taken as conclusive in such matters"
was ill considered and ill
Dilated on
"who was
I have
judged. the Authority of "the officer
responsible for the health of the Troops,
시
that neither he nor his Department was ever
consulted on the subject until after the~
Selection of Napier's Range had been decided on, and the Temporary Barracks ereded. I submit with all respect that in a Case like this, where the Governor was not only
the guardian of the interests of the ~ Crown, but also of the rights of others Subject to which the Territory had been ceded to the Crown, the sanction of the Governor before appropriating ground
circumstanced is something more than "point of form I submit further, that it has been proved that if this usual.
course had been adopted in
a mere
and proper
ď so
the 314 paragraph this instance, Heer Majesty's Troops-
dir thercules Hobro's
patch to Duke of
the
:castle over 57 of might have been saved much unnecessary
List March, 1861.