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

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| last, Despatch_1218, clearly shows that in April, 1850, neither General Staveley, Colonel Phillpotts the then Commanding Royal Engineer, the former of whom arrived in January 1848, and the latter in March 1847, ever imagined that the Ordnance

any clam

of partment had any to the land; otherwise, they

would no doubt have then urged their right to it, whereas, on the contrary, they only - alluded to the possibility of the erection of a Battery which would not interfere with the appropriation of the ground as approved of

by Lord Stanley. Another strong feature of this case is, that

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Mayor Aldrichs Letter to the Surveyor General of the 8th August

1844, herewith enclosed, he! __ entirely excludes from the Cantonment the whole of the ground now under discussion_ From all Jean learn this ground has never been klienated by the Civil Government, nor is there

there any

of its

record of

ever

having been

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applied for by the Commanding Royal Engineer; the only foundation on which I informed the claim now set up is grounded-resting Maps constructed in the office of the Royal Engineers who however fail to produce any authority from the Civil Government showing their

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