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the Magazine at any point nearer than a distance of 20 feet from its Boundary wall.
As the Excellency was prepared to put a sum on the Estimates for 1869 for construction of the road and the framing of those Estimates is now under consideration it therefore becomes essential that he should know whether he is to be guided by the opinion given by the Military Authorities in February 1867 or that now transmitted. If the latter is to prevail finally the road must be abandoned.
In the meantime as the Cession of the ground transferred to the Colony with the sanction of the Bar Department: and Her Majesty's Government is a matter quite apart from the construction of the road. His Excellency is prepared to take steps for its formal transfer to the Colony whenever and in whatever manner the General may consider most convenient.
I have &c.
(Signed) J. Gardiner Austin
Colonial Secretary
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J. Gardiner Austin
Colonial Secretary