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sea to the extent described, and also of the interest held by the Military Authorities in Fletcher's Buildings" about which last nothing suffered to transpire till the action of this Government in reference to the intended Pier, I may well be excused, if I feel bewildered by the unhesitating want of logic in such a conclusion from such plans apparently matured by the Military for adding not merely to frontage admittedly War Department property, but also frontage not even yet purchased or rented by the Military. Yet the General assumes my previous acquaintance with all those plans, though he ought to know, I could not have been acquainted with them.
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In point of fact the letter written on the part of the General since last mail is the first information, official or private, received by any Department of this Government of the extensive plans. Neither I nor any civil officer could have learned or now learn such details, except from the Military Authorities and so far from having supplied them they appear on the contrary to have studiously concealed them.