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and the

ground of resumption is different one. Those disputes have to be settled (if still pressed), entirely irrespective of, and apart from, any resumption proceedings of the property under the new Act.

acquired by

If the property

muhial

can be

arrangement,

so much the better, the

resumption

now in contemplation would, it is

assured, be

the event

of

only

resorted to wi

such muhial a

ments failing.

arrange.

His Excellency the

The Mayon

General Commanding also stated

un answer to a

question by the to.

nourable the Colonial Secretary, that

it was not intended in scheme Ĉ

порив

put forward by the local Military Authorities, that

any expense whatever

for purchase of site, or construction, of new road should fall upon the

Colony

The Director

of Public

Works.

Corony. He further stated that the adoption of scheme 'I would in his opinion tend to promote the final carrying out of the Praya reclamation scheme from Murray dier to Arsenal Street; it revived on the basis of the 1889 proposals; and that the advantages accruing

to the Army from the adoption,

carrying

out of

and

the latter.

scheme, would include better sa. nitation, removal of dead corner

by Murray Pier, deeper water from-

Hages

for

more basin accommodation Launches etc, more available

space possibly for parade ground,

doing away

ant

the

with the ne.

cessity of constructing long piers for the Commissariat launches re.

when the scheme "C" is carried out.

The Honourable the Direct

of