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property, which alone could interfere with the pier now proposed by me, and which so far from being intended to touch any War Department frontage is designed to project from land which was not then and is not now even rented by the War Department, but the contrary is still open for hire by any private person, willing to take it.
19. Still less likely was it that on being interfered with wrote a second Wide Enclosure 2 note declaring that his first note "alluded" simply and entirely to "the Water frontage of War Department Property and not in any way to "the Colonial Ground". rendering it still more improbable a statement that this Government could discover in that simple transaction a clue to the comprehensive scheme actually matured by the Engineer Department at the time.
this Government could Suppose any plan such as has been sent home likely to be contemplated, because Colonel Lovell, when informed by the Surveyor General that the Government Wharf must not ...
10. There is just as little reason for Colonel Lovell and the Major General to attribute to the Surveyor General a knowledge of such intention because the latter gave...