CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6] — Page 336

am wor

wrong

in

saying that the

Marine Lot Leases contained a

clause for empowering

the Lessees

to reclaim between high and low- water mark, Jam

that there

Iam quite

Was a

Land

Jure

office

Notification to that effect. It

eared soon.

appeared

issue

it was

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after the first

brown Leases, - in 1844,

or soon afterwards. At all events before the Land

the Land Office became the Surveyor General's Department in this matter.

I think that no land at all

was reclaimed before Leases were

issued. Sea-walls were made

before the issure of Leases, brit !! think in general between the limits of the land that was measured off. I purchased a Lot at the first

Land sale, and

s

built a land-wall and a sea-wall

too, within the dimensions given

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by the Land Officer. This was in 1841, before the Colony regularly established, - Before

Avas

Ave

&

–

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got the Charter . I do not think that the sea-face of the bity had

then been ascertained. I believe that the Lots had been measured

towards the sea. But all that we were told was that,

we

· provided left a space behins our buildings towards the land of Sirety feet

for

a road, we

right build in

front towards the sea as much liked, and reclaim as for liked;

as ave

as we li

only

at the risk of

resumed

Government

it's being

by Go in the event of it's being

of its being wanted for public purposes. My attention had not been called, previously to the issue of the Leases, to any notifications, either by baptain Elliot, or by Mr. Johnstone, or afterwards, by Sir Henry Pottinger, as to the won't