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Instruction to the Major General Commanding to take such precautions as may ensure the Governor's being placed in full possession of all future contemplated changes or extension of existing Military boundaries.
His Excellency is of course not inclined to recognise the Secretary of State for War as authorized to set aside by his sole decision the rights of this Government and is confident that nothing can be further from the wish of that Minister than to take action in such cases without the full privacy and concurrence of The Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Therefore as the matter at present stands the Governor only fears that the passage and pier in question are greatly needed by the Public, which he does not know and has not been favoured with the slightest means of knowing to what extent if at all the erection of the pier and the use of the narrow passage contemplated will really interfere with those Imperial Interests alluded to by Colonel Lovell.
10. He is further advised that if he were now to discontinue the action already taken the legal rights of the Colony would lapse, and therefore he has really no option but to persevere and leave it to the Secretary of State for the...
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