CO129-037 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [6-9] — Page 14

6.

from the letter from the Admiralty that the Store- houses

were never

the property of the Ordnance, and His Excellency cannot admit that the Orduance map is evidence or authority for possession, as Sir J. Davis appears by the map itself have given the orthography only, and to have approved of

it in no other

by

manner-

to

There is nothing to show,

was

that the ground now claimed the Respective Officers

either officially given

ever

an

of

ever

otherwise, nor was there

application made for it. The Commanding Engineer by letter dated 8th August, 1844 to the Surveyor General clearly

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defined the limits of the Cantonment in that locality as extending 65 feet parallel with the West side of the North Barracks from the sea to the South side of the Queen's Road, and from thence Westward to an old road leading to Government House, which thus comprised the land forming the present Parade Ground, and excluding from the

Cantonment the whole

the

of area North of the Queen's road down to the sea-

of

The change of the boundary therefore has been done clearly without authority and merely for the purpose of including the battery proposed in that;