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Otherwise, when I inform the General of my entire ignorance on the subject, why does he not say that the Surveyor General is welcome to look at all the plans in Colonel Lovell's office, of which copies have been sent home. I have told him I can only act according to the information I possess, and to make him more completely understand that, I wish to at once terminate the discussion, but he refers me to a communication nearly four years old of Colonel Moody, which I find on reference thereto has nothing to do with the subject. Consequently it appears that
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the General is either entirely mistaken as to the nature and ... to the light aware of the real amount ... by this Government, or is so determined not to admit me into his confidence, that I deem it more prudent not to pursue the correspondence further with him, but having asserted by actual claim and possession the indisputable legal rights of the Colony, to leave Your Lordship and the Secretary of ...