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stating that their clients desired to purchase only the Horthern portion of the lot for which they previously applied, reducing the extent of the Eastern frontage from 1,200 feet to 350 feet, the new area being only about one-third of that for which they previously applied. This new application was under my consideration at the date when your telegram of the 1st. instant reached me, and I have now directed the Director of Public Works to suspend negotiations and to reply to Lessrs. Leigh an Orange that I do not wish to let a portion of the site in question and that as their clients are unwilling to accept my first offer it is now withdrawn.
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I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble servant,
Governor,&C..