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13.

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Meis

but you

arry first step

was a summons which shewed that he looked

me recelt, the confiscation of my basement stries . Thus forced by the Surveyor Sinnal int an attitude of sheer defona,

and

finding the decision of the appointed Court in my farm, is it any wonder that I should have proceeded, on the scale on which thad begun ( 20 per bent higher than the London, Seals!) and which Scould not then alter or conform without demolishing all the work done

very facendation, and Commencing all de novo.

to the

discovers

down

However it is this Law itself, and not merely its oppressive execution which I complain of, and protect against, as unsettling all the primary foundations of property in this Colony and outraging the first right of the British subject. That law onust be without a precedent evan inthe annals of Colonial liquitition, which sepen the day it was,

passed Contravention of it's specifications in the basement tay of a Building actually roofed in, but not finished, and because of that ~ fundamental contravention which it was equally impossible to foresee a to remedy would condemn the whole heelding and it's materials to the absolute devoution of the "Larveyor General " ?! This was not my case, but it was a case which actually

a

arose.

His Excelling Beverna Beuvring in laying this case ito essential connectors fully before you,

has Itrust informed

of mine with

1 you

mastes

of property

wwe

that it did not stand alone - that large included with mine in the summmes of 28th of May (det of

the "first interruption") that the former. - were protected by the decision of the Bench of Magistales on the date

the date given, while mine alme was attacked and confiscated on the 20th of August following. His ~ Grallinay has I trust further informed you

that the property of

Ameucan

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