plans for approval at Home, affecting certain well defined Public rights without affording the parties interested in those rights full opportunity to transmit at the same time their opinion of such plans so far as they affect their legal rights.
On the departure of this mail though I have hitherto abstained from acting for that which ought to have been offered, since I shall request the Major General to allow the Surveyor General to inspect the plan of the improvements and extension into the harbor which he has transmitted to the War Department, for neither I have any more information nor have I any reason to suppose the Major General himself would intentionally keep me ignorant of a communication with which, if he reflected on the subject, he must know I sought to have been officially made acquainted.
I cannot quite account for his not having long since laid his communication to the War Department before me. I am bound to add that I have always derived satisfaction from the cordial and ready cooperation which I have experienced from him in other matters.
I am also thankful for all the Surveyor General has done on the subject now in question when writing my Despatch No. 178 of last December.
18. And here I wish to add, lest there might be any misapprehension on that point, that I am aware that in the Engineer Department it is considered fortunate to give up hold of and that by means of the passage through Flitch's lot...
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plans for approval at Home, affecting certain well defined Public rights without affording the parties interested in those rights full opportunity to transmit at the same time their opinion of such plans so far as they affect their legal rights.
On the departure of this mail though I have hitherto abstained from acting for that which ought to have been offered, since I shall request the Major General to allow the Surveyor General to inspect the plan of the improvements and extension into the harbor which he has transmitted to the War Department, for neither I have any more information nor have I any reason to suppose the Major General himself would intentionally keep me ignorant of a communication with which, if he reflected on the subject, he must know I sought to have been officially made acquainted.
I cannot quite account for his not having long since laid his communication to the War Department before me. I am bound to add that I have always derived satisfaction from the cordial and ready cooperation which I have experienced from him in other matters.
I am also thankful for all the Surveyor General has done on the subject now in question when writing my Despatch No. 178 of last December.
18. And here I wish to add, lest there might be any misapprehension on that point, that I am aware that in the Engineer Department it is considered fortunate to give up hold of and that by means of the passage through Flitch's lot...
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