a
that he may not also have
legal ground to claim
against the Crown in respect of his Western boundary. He was
tenant of land up to the twenty-five foot Whitty Street, & even if the
boundaries as given in
the original lease, i.e. lot 185 & Whitty
Street, proved
to enclose more square
feet than were named in the lease, the Government
do not appear to have had the right to resume
possession of the surplus
without the express
consent of Mr. Stephens
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Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bramston.
Mr. Meade.
Sir R. Herbert.
Lord Onslow.
Sir H. T. Holland.
... they might have
claimed more rent for the
excess. It appears however that a right still exists in
the Crown to determine for themselves
which part of the lot they
would
5. The lease papers are not
with the papers before me,
nor is the correspondence about the old
surrender of lease; but it is clear that this Stephens surren-
dered a lease which gave him up to the twenty-five feet Whitty Street as his Western boundary, & that he has
got back his
Lease
which gives him
different
boundaries; & if I understand
his