On these Lots, and can be applied to the water frontage as they do not even have frontage - that I do not therefore see how they could have expected to have received notice of the proposed resumption. It never was meant to be kept secret. And if the Trustees are in treaty for sale of the property they might naturally have been better informed from Quarter Master General's office.
Colonel Lovell, 10 November 1866, says "except the small plot happily expected to communicate on the subject with the Military Authorities, and could have done so immediately on receipt of the notice." Colonel Lovell states that "the War Department and Navy own the whole of the water frontage from the East Praya to the Barrack Wharf." This is certainly not the case as to Lots 20 and 21, because his...