DATE.
FROM
PROIS.
Extract Government Gaze
Do.
Do.
January, 1862. See page 11.
th January, 1862. See page 12. Extract from Crown Lease of Inland L671, dated 14th June, 1802. See page 12
To
SUBJECT MATTER OF LETTER.
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Asking abatement or reduction of Crown rent on Inland Lot No. 671 until Government make Public
Street. See page 13.
"The Street on the absence of which you rest your claim is at the present moment being made." See page 14.
8th November, 1873,
J. M. Price
Granville Sharp
Warning against cutting Inland Lot No. 671. See page 13.
20th December, 1873.
E. M. Grain
Granville Sharp
Warning against quarrying (Inland Lot No. 671). See page 13.
1st October, 1875.
Granville Sharp
Colonial Secretary
11th October, 1875.
Colonial Secretary
Granville Sharp
13th October, 1875.
Granville Sharp
Colonial Secretary
15th October, 1875.
Colonial Secretary
Granville Sharp
5th August, 1885.
Surveyor General
Granville Sharp
11th August, 1985.
Granville Sharp
Thanking the Government for the promise, but repeating the request for reduction of the rent of Inland
Lot No. 671 meanwhile. See page 14.
Confirms promise of the road, made on 11th instant, and refuses any reduction of Crown rent upon
Inland Lot No. 671. See page 15.
Calls attention to the urgent necessity for immediate filling in of earth behind the new sea wall of Marine Lots opposite to Inland Lot No. 671, now being built by the Government for GRANVILLE SHARP; in default threatens the rain of the work by imminent typhoons. Pending the filling in, the masonry work must cease. See page 15.
Major Lloyd Commanding Royal States that the ground was purchased twenty years ago for the purpose of filling in the Marine Lots,
Engineers.
that the soil is now urgently required: claiming also the full measure of the Lot 225 feet and 30 feet road at the back, according to Sale Plan inclosed. Inclosing copy correspondence with Public Work's Department. See page 16.
Colonial Secretary
11th August, 1885.
Granville Sharp
12th August, 1885.
13th August, 1885.
Commanding Royal Engineers
Surveyor General
Granville Sharp
Granville Sharp
15th August, 1885.
15th August, 1885.
Granville Sharp
Colonial Secretary
Surveyor General
Granville Sharp
18th August, 1885.
Granville Sharp
Colonial Secretary
8th February, 1887.
Granville Sharp
Colonial Secretary
9th February, 1887.
Colonial Secretary
Granville Sharp
11th March, 1887.
Sharp & Co.
Commanding Royal Engineers
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Incloses copy correspondence with Royal Engineers. States unwillingness to part with any portion of Ialand Lot No. 671; but if indispensable to Military, suggesting other pieces which would be accepted in exchange. See page 18.
Acknowledges receipt of letter of 11th, and refers to the Surveyor General. Soe
page 18.
Notice of resumption of 9,150 square feet of Inland Lot No. 671 for the improvement of the Colony, at 40
cents $ per square foot. See page 19.
Declines to accept the payment as inadequate; and protests against the appropriation. See page 19.
Inland Lot No. 671 indispensable, and absolutely necessary for Public purposes. See page 19.
Remonstrates against valuation and resumption based upon erroneous calculation, and offers to state
reasons when called upon. See page 20.
Protest against the placing of a War Department stone at the South East corner of Inland Lot No. 673, Renews protest against resumption of Inland Lot No. 671, without any opportunity to state case in Supreme Court, which was asked on 18th August, 1885, to which no acknowledgement of receipt even has been vouchafed. See page 21.
Acknowledges letter of 8th and states that protest re-Inland Lot No. 671 and Inland Lot No. 673 is under
consideration. See page 21.
Protests, on behalf of Frincipals, against the foundation of a stone wall being laid across Hill Street, opposite Inland Lot No. 674, by which the Lot will be entirely out off from the Public Street by which it is described in the Crown Lease as bounded on the South. See page 29.
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