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· front of some property of the Petitioners,

and a few feet thereupon

an

Engine

House obstructing the footpath vor,

whereby Petitioners allege that they

have

sustained considerable damage.

It is certainly incorrect to any building

say

that

has been erected

in front of the Petitioners' property- and

having several times inspected the premises.

I am unable

myself

to see that the

petitioners have sustained any damage whatever except that which results from the general deterioration of landed property

in this bity from general

al causes.

The porths way inded formerly

path-way

where the small station is built whose position

is considered a

a great

additional security

to

C.S.O. No 1102

29* Afuil, 1869.

all property in the neighborhood. There is a Police Banack between the Engine House

and complainants' premises, and no one else has raised

any

objection to the Engine House.

I referred the question months

ago

to the

Attorney General, and Your Lordship will

perceive from his enclosed opinion that he did not consider the Government called on to ~ interfere-

even "ad misericordiam, His

advice to leave complainants to their remedy.

if in truth there has been

any

invasion of

their

legal rights, appeared at the time the best which this Goverment could adopt.-

In following

that

any

that advice I felt

person with

bringing

aw

action

a

moreover

shadow of a claim

against this

Government

is sure to have the Sympathy of jurors with