CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5] — Page 86

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Engineer, Lieutenant. St. Ithan,

forwarded for my information a letter he has addressed to the Inspector General of Fortifications, laying claine to the ground, and stating that it is required for Military purposes; and as it is probable

you

Lordship may

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to on the subject. I wish to

applied to on

okerve that the ground

given

to them by either of my predecessors, and

positively refused; and

in fast.

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Lord Stanley in his despatch marked "Privates" of 15th Fovember 1843, to Sir Henry Pottinger, particularly reserved the ground for the public, and further defined the east limit of the Cantonment, markington (aptain_ Belcher's plan of the Island, forwarded_ in the despatch referred to. Lordship also in despatch Military. P/ 18th March 18441, speaking of this

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very ground, expressly alludes to "the

inexperiency of encumbering the "Victoria with Military Works!"

City of

toere

subsequently

The boundaries

ananged by Sir John Davis, and the

WπJ

ground in question

again excluded the Cantonment in the Ordnance from the Cantonment map of the Island in betober 1845; Meap

I am therefore at a love to know how the military Engineer

imagine

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it to be Ordnance property.

I had several conversations with the late Commanding Engineer, Lieutenant Colonch Phillpotts, regarding the Cantonments, and he promised to forward a plan of

the Cantonment

for

registry in the Surveyor General's "office, but he neglected to do so; Caving however heard that there was still some claim made to the Ground, to set the matter at nest,

I wrote