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2. In my Despatch No 178 of the 22nd December last I went, as I thought very fully into that subject, considering that the Public were entitled to and should on Public grounds have access to the harbor at that place, supposing inconvenience or detriment to be insuperable thereby caused to the Military or Naval Services, the onus of proving naturally assumed to lie with them.
3. In the meantime and pending reference to the proper departments in England, I exercised the legal right of opening the passage as the only means of ensuring a fair hearing of the General Public here. I now infer from a paragraph in Lord Carnarvon's Despatch that His Lordship did not consider I had supplied him with materials sufficient to determine the amount of Public or personal inconvenience, which would be actually inflicted by the allowance or by the prohibition of the proposed Praya in front of the Military and Naval Buildings and of the passage through lot 21 (Fletcher's lot) "connecting Queen's Road with the sea.
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