31
347
certificate of the Surveyor General
to above (Taraf. 10.) as s
alluded
securing to the
private owners of Fletcher's lots
right
to reclaim land towards the Sea - a
right nevertheless revocable and
subject
already explained -
to modification
The document however in no way
elucidates the plan actually sent for
approval to the War Department and cannot conclude the existing legal right of the Colony to resume any part of that land
right which.
apparently the Military wish to
extinguish.
22. The General nevertheless
very
inconsistently
argues,
that from such
a document, the Colonial Government
were not without exact information of the plan recommended by the Military Authorities, though, already frequently stated, this
Government has never seen or suffered to see either that plan or the communication accompanying
it.
The map of Fletcher's lot however, as signed by the Surveyor General, shews the probable line of the future roadway reserved on the land to be reclaimed - I should
have liked to know therefore whether such public thoroughfare forms part of
the plan sent home by the Military.
Reallo