CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 497

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Colonial Secretary's Letter of the pot instant No. boy wherein it is stated that

by a report four the Surveyor General's Department, His Cecellency the Governor is

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- prevented from complying with the request of His Excellency, the Commander of the Forces

s for

the surrender

of the lot of Land-subject of my report dated 264_

ultrino.

It is

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is further explained

that the lot is reserved

served for

a Public Market, and that

when the intentions of the

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Government are carried out

with reference to the Bowring Praya,

it will be ne

less

ssary

to make it the locality

for communicating with the Queen's Road. I trust

the Surveyor General may

be able to

point out an~

equally Eligible site elsewhere, for although

appropriation

such

arr

tion of the lot

in

would no doubt.

question would

contribute to the convenience

of the Town, and improvements contemplated, I feel it my duty to enter my respectful. protest against it.

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