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the principal thoroughfare of the town to the beach, through land which is

still private property and known

"Fletcher's lots," and colored yellow on the plan Isent herewith. In the same despatch

as

I also transmitted a remonstrance against that project from the Major General

A.

Plan)

communication that he thought this

projected purchase

was

but

а

portion

of a larger scheme for extending the bantonments into the harbor. and

shutting out the tublic from all

access

to the

sea for the whole length

of the War Department and

Admiralty property, which would

bommanding

on

the

ground that the

then form

Military

were in treaty for the purchase

of Fletcher's property- and that it would be advisable for this Government to await the reply of the Secretary of State for War to that application, which had been forwarded to Europe

far back

مد

2.

last

July.

I gathered from the Surveyor General to whom I shewed that

an unbroken line of

2250 feet- A scheme apparently

matured with a

a

Cole Real with the spirit of

PR. 195. Keep 1.

X

Secrecy inconsistent

Her Majesty's

Regulations directing the Governor to be supplied with full information

in such

cases. The Surveyor General

could not

supposing

give

me any reason

such

a

for

plan in existence