The final portion of para: 4 of the last named Despatch - (in which the Brevet Major the Governor states in to the Secretary of State for the Colonies -
I am under the necessity of "acting Your Lordship's intervention" with the Secretary of State, to for "with a view to the issue of the long "promised but hitherto forgotten instructions" relative to the cessions of certain War Department Lands near the Albany Road (Villages) places. The matter of this cession on its right and proper basis admitting as it does that these instructions have not been received and are heeded.
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heeded (from the Secretary of State for War) to enable the Military Authorities to relinquish possession of the lands vested hitherto in the Secretary of State for War.
3. The above admission affords explanation to the statement in para: 3, and at once puts my action on 13th November last in maintaining rights of the Secretary of State for War in its proper light - viz: that, as Custodian of War Department Lands here, I was then as heretofore, bound to remove trespassers and encroachments at the yearly perambulation of War Department Boundaries.
Previous Correspondence than