CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7] — Page 210

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land, now

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o registered in my purpose of hulding one without delay. The lot in question being little more, than sin bed of a water course, had to be filled up to the level of the road, and as reclaiming wall was built at the seaward extremity to protect it from the. encroachment of the tide. depon the portion to reclaimed from the sea it toat judged unsafe to erect a building of any solidity, and a small market place was accordingly commence and completed by Captain Morgan, the pepresentative of my agents mest hardine Matheson of

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whilst I was absent with the Force in the north. Upon its completion interdict was law upon its use as a market place, and my agent who at first proposed to let it as a timber yard, subsequently, as the Chinese petitioned

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to have such a place of accommodation thrown open to them in that quarter of the

lourv

· gave it up to Tv A. G. Johnston, the Deputy Governor of the Colony, and

communicated the circumstance to are

Jupplied to Sir Henry Pottinger by letter, in

Ireceived in the course

Consequerice,

off

Qu

r. 1. private correspondence, a reply to the effect

that no final decision had yet been come

the subject, but that in the event of its king finally decided that lovernment, were to retain possession of the market; all the expenses

incurred would be

refunded. Ros of business of an important character prevented me from intruding the affair upouchtis upon His Excellency's attention until the following year; when in the course

official correspondence regarding "compousation sought by me for constructed on the land, I was infrined

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some drains

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