CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9] — Page 621

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4.

5.

615

unsaleable, circumstance which

at

must have entered largely into the circulations not only of the harveyor

Th General but also of the two other gentlemen when they estimated the value of the property in question.

That

your.

Memorialist had

no intention whatever of parting

with this perparty,

bat.

the

en

contrary contemplated mucking large improvements thereto which would

in time have yielded

him

a

handsome relwin; and certainly

your

Memorialist would not have

thought of parting with the property

at se incepportune a puncture the present:

<

That

this property.

your

Memorialtat values

at $40,000, and considers

himself fully entitlect to be paired that

full

which is not more than the

and fair compensation experipet in the pervise for resumption

mentioned in the Crown Lease, but

inasmuch

CLO one

of his own valusters

of $ 35,000

has named the sum

the value of the property at the present time, your

Memonalent

believes that he cannot

ex

may

Q

# foirly insist

higher compensation whatever

be his

views

as to the

sum he is poroperly

properly entitled to.. Your Memorialist

therefore prays

that

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