CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12] — Page 307

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the extension of the town would lead to filling up all the shallow portion of the harbour making a straight line of beach from North Point to the Praya. Whereupon the Colonel observed that he was already contemplating some improvements on a large scale.

His Excellency however had not the slightest conception that any plan of the kind then alluded to and involving extension of the Military bounds into the Harbour or in fact any alteration of the present Cantonments in any way had been not only matured but actually forwarded for the sanction of the War Department without his privity or Knowledge.

3. He regarded such a proceeding infringing the existing Colonial practice and regulations and liable as proved in the present instance to occasion inconvenience and lead to cross purposes.

7 It is His Excellency's duty to watch over the general interests of the Colony, and he conceives such transmission of proposed changes in boundaries to the War Department without the knowledge of himself and the Secretary of State for the Colonies prejudicial and I was directed to convey His Excellency's

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the extension of the town would lead to filling up all the shallow portion of the harbour making a straight line of beach from North Point to the Praya. Whereupon the Colonel observed that he was already contemplating some improvements on a large scale.His Excellency however had not the slightest conception that any plan of the kind then alluded to and involving extension of the Military bounds into the Harbour or in fact any alteration of the present Cantonments in any way had been not only matured but actually forwarded for the sanction of the War Department without his privity or Knowledge.3. He regarded such a proceeding infringing the existing Colonial practice and regulations and liable as proved in the present instance to occasion inconvenience and lead to cross purposes.7 It is His Excellency's duty to watch over the general interests of the Colony, and he conceives such transmission of proposed changes in boundaries to the War Department without the knowledge of himself and the Secretary of State for the Colonies prejudicial and I was directed to convey His Excellency's
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the extension of the town would lead to filling up all the shallow cortion of the barbor making a straight- live of beach from North Point to the Prayn. Whereupon the Colonel brerved that he was already contemplating

ench

improvements

some

sale..

on a mina

His Excellency however had not the slightest conception that- any plan of the kind then alluded

to and involving extension of the Military bounds into the Starbon_or

in fact any

alteration of the

preseul- Cantonments in any way had been not only matured but actually forwarded for the sanction of the Ware

separtment without his frivity or Knowledge.

as

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3. He requid such a proceeding

infringing the existing Colonial practice and regulations and liable proved in the present instance

as

to occasion inconvenience and lead to crose purposes..

7

It is His Excellency duty to watch over the genersi interests of the Colony, and he conceives such transmission of proposed changes in boundaries to the War Department without the knowledge of himself a the Secretary of State for the Colonies

40

prejudicial that I dricted to convey

aww now.

His Excellency's

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