CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7] — Page 206

reclaiming wall to protect it from the tide, and on the ground so reclavined he constructed a smalt market place. Sir Henry Pottinger considering that the regulation of markets should be in the hands of Government placed it under the superintendence of Maja Caine the Police. Magistrate and the precies

derived from

it have

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ve ever since been received

by the Government In the

of

- k-

Velober 1843 Licut ! Ouchterlong

was

informed that on production of a certified

incurred in

statement of the xpense ineux-

the

crection of the market place he would be repaid what was found due to him; but although this was furmiclact in the course of the sans month, and the Committee appointed trinvestigate the claims of the - holders of land, in January 1844 reported that the market had been resumed by Government, no further steps samle have

keen

been taken at the time.

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The accompanying letter with its inclosures, being my first intimation of the

affair not having been settled, has been since reccived, and I lose notime in requesting Your Awaccount

Lordshifis instructions on the subject: Ow of its proximity to the New Military Hospital the Markect place

was removed this

8 year by

the Ordnance Department, and rebuilt the other side of the cantonment. It has since

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unfortunately been destroyed by a fire which broke out on the 24th May

As Sex H. Pottinger in the

acco &

mpanying extracts has treated this

as one de

$

ouse

by

deserving compensation, and considerable profits have been received. Covernment from this market, I can recommend it to Your Lordstrip's favorables

consideration. There is no

that the

bund

sonte doubt-

stated in the recript Mached