the extension of the town would lead to filling up all the shallow portion of the harbour making a straight line of beach from North Point to the Praya. Whereupon the Colonel observed that he was already contemplating some improvements on a large scale.
His Excellency however had not the slightest conception that any plan of the kind then alluded to and involving extension of the Military bounds into the Harbour or in fact any alteration of the present Cantonments in any way had been not only matured but actually forwarded for the sanction of the War Department without his privity or Knowledge.
3. He regarded such a proceeding infringing the existing Colonial practice and regulations and liable as proved in the present instance to occasion inconvenience and lead to cross purposes.
7 It is His Excellency's duty to watch over the general interests of the Colony, and he conceives such transmission of proposed changes in boundaries to the War Department without the knowledge of himself and the Secretary of State for the Colonies prejudicial and I was directed to convey His Excellency's