which rendered into partial completion
still more
difficult and unsafe.
The enclosed return from the Surveyor
8.
General giving respective leases
and
a.
list of the lots, and the
on the
the 21th of last February.
showing the lots at that time
resumed by the Crown through payment of rent and
mon
of rent and flight of tenants_is the most useful document which I can submit to Your Excellency in connection with
the questions which have since arisen.
19.
That return shews that 21 Marine
Lots and 39 Inland Lots had been sold.
Enclosure 1.
six Marine and Eighteen Inland Lots.
10.
The
great difficulty which these
resumptions of Marine Lots
the
Government consisted
imposed
consisted in their
on
entailing on Government the expense of
the
portions of the Sea Wall in front of
the Lots resumed-an
by resumption of
latter can stand
more
an expense not incurred
expense Inland Lots, which
over
for resale at some
propitious time, the Government
meantime having at least
gained the
rent previously paid for those
The rent of the total
was
originally
$19,274. reduced on the 21th of February last to $14,464 in consequence of
the
Government having been obliged to resume
amount
of
lots.
M. St
was
very
desirable, therefore, if
possible,
that some understanding
be arrived at with the tenants of the
Marine Lots to prevent the further
should
of