understood and
: has not been fully the advantages to the public not fully appreciated doubtless from the imperfect manner in which they
•have been stated.
My preposition was as
follows:
that the Government should relinquish
to me the land
the Bluff as far
on
as
such restrictions as
the North side of
the road under
they might deem
prefer, in cnwideration of which I
awould undertake to out away
an
the
East face of tire Bluff as much as would be safe throwing the level space thus obtained at the foot, into the Parade Ground, build a retaining the North and East of the
svall
on
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Bluff, and build couned drains along the East side where now >
there
au
mone.
I beg to repeat this proprosition
and while I am aware that in
giving
its consent the Government
will confer a great faver upon
mio,
G
I would
point out that the land of which I should thus
become lesse
cannot be of
ت
use li
anybody else and its value to mo
is chiefly derived from the
prcecinity
of my house on the Bluff, and I
also desire to show that the
interests of the Military Departmen and the jublic generally
carsulted in the oncession
aw >
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