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by Major Grant, the Deputy Adjudant General, and the third_ has, I believe been hired for the Survey Department.

I shall get rid of the difficulty that

these houses might

might secasion to the

occasion to the proposed_

them

arrangement, by calling on the owners of them. to sell them. to Government, and giving locations instead, in other places. Thould- they decline to dispose of the Houses (but which Ido not consider at all likely) they will_be_ of course obliged to remove them.

this Cantonment n

as the

very

I have pointed out to Mr. Gordon, that

may extend as far back. base of the Mountains, and that it will have four great roads leading into it from the "Queen's Road". One on the extrême left looking towards the Harbor. One on the

extreme

extreme right,

- a third through the Canton. Bazar, and the fourth through Morgan's Bazar

Jam

dware

that it was a

· part of the

kvcutive - Engineers plan to have officers -

Quarters directly

- directly in the

which

are now

I wish to reserve

rear

of the Barracks

-being built, but this plan-

would encroach on "Government. Hill which

for. various Public Buildings (a Church., Court House, Post Office, Treasury te., 4., ) that will hereafter have to be rected_ in the Eolony, and therefore it is necessary to abundon. that part of Lecut buchtertony's. plan.

It is

my intention to recommend to

un

Her Majesty's Government that as large extent of land as may be possible, shall. hereafter be reclaimed from that part of the

Harbor