CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843 — Page 773

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Excellency desires to express the regret he feels at being obliged to withhold his acquiescence to the proposed plan, but his reasons for doing so are so fully expressed in the correspondence with Lord Saltown No. 45, as noted in the margin 16 72. 3. (but that he considers it would be superfluous to repeat them, and he accordingly begs to refer the Honorable the Major to those letters.

General No: 528 of the 23rd. Subsequent to the date of those letters a communication was received from Lord Saltown regarding the further Extension of the Cantonment at Chukyen(?) which was immediately acceded to and recently when a reference made regarding a Rope loath(?), Sinternate(?) to you the readiness of Government to compensate the Owner and to assign to him another location for his business,

No: 87 of the 26th October, 1843. No: 63... but there was nothing in any part of the correspondence herein alluded to, that hinted that the village ground was to be encroached as shown in the tracing which is now returned. On the contrary, the Governor has been always under the impression that the western boundary of the Cantonment was intended to be that which was laid down in March, 1843, by the Assistant Quarter Master General as Explained in the sketch which accompanies this letter, and His Excellency considers that the utmost that can be done with justice to the inhabitants of the village is to leave them the right to that portion of the ground lying to the west of the pencil line which has been drawn on the tracing, and along which line it appears to the Governor desirable that a wall either of masonry or uncemented...

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Excellency desires to express the regret he feels at being obliged to withhold his acquiescence to the proposed plan, but his reasons for doing so are so fully expressed in the correspondence with Lord Saltown No. 45, as noted in the margin 16 72. 3. (but that he considers it would be superfluous to repeat them, and he accordingly begs to refer the Honorable the Major to those letters. General No: 528 of the 23rd. Subsequent to the date of those letters a communication was received from Lord Saltown regarding the further Extension of the Cantonment at Chukyen(?) which was immediately acceded to and recently when a reference made regarding a Rope loath(?), Sinternate(?) to you the readiness of Government to compensate the Owner and to assign to him another location for his business, No: 87 of the 26th October, 1843. No: 63... but there was nothing in any part of the correspondence herein alluded to, that hinted that the village ground was to be encroached as shown in the tracing which is now returned. On the contrary, the Governor has been always under the impression that the western boundary of the Cantonment was intended to be that which was laid down in March, 1843, by the Assistant Quarter Master General as Explained in the sketch which accompanies this letter, and His Excellency considers that the utmost that can be done with justice to the inhabitants of the village is to leave them the right to that portion of the ground lying to the west of the pencil line which has been drawn on the tracing, and along which line it appears to the Governor desirable that a wall either of masonry or uncemented...
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Excellency desires

to express the regret he feels at being obliged to withhold his acquiescence to the proposed plan, but his reasons for doing so are so fully exprested No 45. Pan in the correspondence with Lord Saltown No.:6.1.19. Auf of the Not and Dates noted in the margin 16 72. 3. (bur that he considers it would be superfluous to repeat them, and he accordingly begs to refer the Honorable the major to those letters.

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in any park of the correspondence herein alleeded to, that hinted that the village, ground was to

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be encroached as shown in the tracing which is now

returned. On the contrary,

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now

18403, by the Assistant Quarter Master Several as Explained in the sketch which accompanies this letter, and His considers that the very Excellency utmost that can be done with justice to the inhabitants of the village is to leave them the right to that portion of the ground. bying toest of the pencil line which has been drawn on the tracing, and along which line it appears to the Governor desirable that a wall either of masonry

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