CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12] — Page 388

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market value, seems to all Sharp both unfair and illegal -

Iam prepared as W Sharp's attomey

to treat for the sale of the land in quection and the price that by comparison with

sales of property considers a fair

m

near

his, all Sharp

is $3 per foot

the total area of 86,798 square feet.

$260,394.

I trust that some arrangement for a friendly sale of the property will be

adopted nistead of the

course of

resumption which W. Sharp considers

both arbitrary and uncalled for not

to

say ungenerons to himself

large contributor now and

a.o

for many Years

years past to the Colonial Revenue, both

as land

owner and tax payer, if. however that course is persevered in, I

that the notice be given

must

request

to

W Sharpe -personally three months being too short a time to allow of my communicating

· and receiving back

from him the instructions lie

may

deem necessary for the legal protection

of his interests.

I have &

(signed) AW. Davis. - attorney for #8. Sharpe

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