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13.

Otherwise, when I inform

the General of my

entire

ignorance on the subject, why does he not say that the Surveyor General is welcome to look at all the plans in Colonel Lovell's office, of which copies have been sent home. I have told him I

can

only act acc

according

I possess, and to make him more

completely

at once terminate the discussion, but

refers

me to a communication nearly

four years old of bolonel Moody, which I find

on

reference thereto has

nothing to do with the subject.

bonsequently it appears that

14.

the General is either

entirely

mistaken

as to the nature and

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to the light

aware

of the real amount

by this Government,

ar

is

so determined

of information which I do possess

copy of

the

I have forwarded to him a my despatch to Your Lordship per

last mail. Nevertheless he does not

even

yet

see the expediency of

tat

supplying

me with detailed.

information, which might possibly

extent of the information possessed

not to admit me into his confidence, that I deem it more prudent not to

•pursue the correspondence further with him, but having asserted by actual claim and possession the indisputable legal rights of the bolony, to leave Your hardship and the Secretary of