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latter be extended further into the Harbor. Hence this question of debarring the Public from the passage and pier proportions and ... an proposed assumes importance, quite distinct from the necessity for or the merits of that proposal separately considered. On behalf of the Colony, I therefore hope Your Lordship and the Secretary for War will not forget that point, when considering the expediency of allowing or disallowing the present clear legal right of this Government to connect the Queen's road with the beach at Fletcher's lots. I am at least gratified at thinking that I have been enabled to defer such decision till Your Lordship shall have been put in possession of all those details, which I have shewn are at present withheld from myself.
I have the honor to be,
Your Lordships,
Most Obedient Servant,
Richard Graves MacDonnell
Governor.
P. S.
27th December.
the above
21. Since writing the enclosed communication (dated 24th Inst.) on the part of the General has this day reached me. It covers the ...
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