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offer to purchase the latter.
Like the Gaol at Stone Cutters
Island, the Buildings, erected for a very peculiar and special purpose, are ill adapted for any object except that for which they exclusively designed. The peculiar arrangements of furnaces, laboratories -
Bullion rooms to
We are
Avere
useles for almost
anything else but minting purposes- and when I induced the General and officer.
Ma
ommanding the Engineers to visit the place with a hope that the buildings might be mader
objection which
useful
As
a
Barack, one
they made was the expense of removing those buildings before they could occupy the lot Moreover, as the War Department has
since constructed banacks in or more, central
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Enclosure No!
position and objects to Quartering troops at an
extremely of the City, there is no reasonable
prospect of the site being
Military.
3.
being ever used
by the
On the other hand, the Naval
Authorities decline having anything to do awith
Lordship may therefore
the place - and
Your
rest satisfied, that if otherwise disposed of
no inconvenience would be incrised by any branch of Her Majesty's service - Civil, Naval,
Military - a point which I think it essential to determine first in disposing of Publie property of the kind.
H
The offer made to me
by Mr.
Mr. Smith
was the result of much negociation, and amounted
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finally to to 65,000, and 1500 annual: rent for a lease,
ground
; on nonal terms of the mint
,