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and that the $32,500 had been already appropriated for the purchase of his ground by Ordinance N. 14 of 1867 - consequently

and that

he would tatte legal steps to enforce

his right. 24. Jean only say

quoted

Ordinance

that

as to the

it does not allude in

to Mo?" Duddell

·way

Casto

such late

.on

fining him formal

any

his ground, whilst

notice

the most formal afourance that all intention

ow

the part of the Executive to force the

sale was at an end

25. M2 Duddell'o

present anxiety

to

enforce the sale on

the

of

farmer temno the Goverment is at least complimentary to the liberal dealing of this Government

but his power to do so has, I contiud, been

of

lost from his

own dela

the withdrawal of the claim to resumption.

fit was

pechaps a nudies work of supuranogation under the circumstances detailed. Neverthelep

he had declared

himself

So averse

to part

with his land at all and so inclined to

charge the Gavemment with unfair and

parsimonious dealing,

that it was

thought

best to allay his apprehensions by fiving him

delay

and that

of

his

from the payment

and Rates bring

Agent to prep it as well as by the latter of brown Kreut subsequent to the period (26" of last November) at which the resumption, if insisted on, should have been inforced. If there

wao

contract raised by daw it must have

a

carried with it reciprocal obligations auss

it cannot

be

argued that M. Duddell