and betterment of a large portion of the Harbour, and he does not show how a plan for that purpose could properly be suggested without this Government being consulted as to the details and extent of such an important scheme. This Government has always maintained its right to be consulted in matters such as
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water in the harbour. Such right is obviously useful, because injudicious or inconsistent plans to render the breach, or injudicious interference with the currents, might operate most injuriously to the general interests of the City and World
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In proof of the Colony's concise such right and all the foregoing, I inclose a correspondence between myself and Vice Admiral King on the subject of a pier constructed in front of the Admiralty Yard without previous sanction of the local Government. Admiral King did not attempt to justify the proceeding as a matter of right and thus being really no objection to the pier, the correspondence closed with a formal declaration of myself by advice of the Attorney General of the rights of this Government in
such
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