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right to the boundaries which they have seen fit at their own pleasure to adopt-
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To enable Your Lordship clearly to understand the question, I enclose a plan of the "locality as it now stands, showing the Barracks, the Main Guard, and the Boundary
as
me in concert with
freed by me
Major General Staveley and Colonel Phillpotts; the Parade Ground and the ground
ground now claimed by the Board of Respective Officers -
as well
as the site on which the Naval Stores, alluded to in the 4th Paragraph of this - Despatch, stood -
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6. It is obvious that up to the end of 1845, the time when the ground was returned to the Civil Government by the Naval Department, the Orduanne Board had no alaim to the ground; that Lieutenant-Colonel Phillpotts arrived here in March 1847 and left in May 1850, and that during that time and up to March of the present year- after Major General Staveley's departure-
no
elaim was
ever set up to this ground, and
indeed it
may
be said that
until the arrival
an entire
of an new set of Officers who now form the Board of Respective Officers, there was no dispute on the subject. This Board
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