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property, which alone could interfere

with the pier now proposed by me,

and which so

to touch

any

far from being intended

War Department frontage

is designed to project from land which

was not then and is not now even

rented by the War Department, but the contrary is still open for hire by

any private person, willing to take

Lit.

19.

Still

less likely

was it that

on

be

interfered with wrote a second

Wide Enclosure 2 note declaring that his first note

"alluded "simply and entirely to

in Surveyor Generato letter Enclosume Nin

herewith.

"the Water frontage of War Department "Property and not in any way to "the Colonial Ground".

rendering it still more

a statement

improbable

that this Government could discover

in that simple transaction a clue to the comprehensive scheme actually matured by the Engineer Department

at the time.

this Government could Suppose any

plan

such

as

was even

has been sent home

likely to be contemplated,

because bolonel Lovell, when. informed by the Surveyor General

that the Government Wharf must not

10.

There is just

co

little reas

reason

for Colonel Lovell and the Major General to attribute to the Surveyor General a knowledge of such i intention because the latter

gave

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