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The request of the lots near Point Pleasant is totally
inadvisable, because I consider that ground as highly
necessary to Government in a military point of view
I am very desirous that the agreement loosely [illegible] into [decring?] the administrative of Sir John [illegible] should be brought to a conclusion, in the spirit in which it was understood when the people of colour were placed on the land. I think the Surveyor General, & the then acting secretary of the Province the people [illegible] on the part of Government to arrange this with the Proprietor. I will consider their recommendation of the [illegible] in a desire to act with liberality towards the Proprietor. I would wish to obtain a relinquishment of the whole of the lots in that period where the Blacks are placed if that caused [illegible], I wish at least so much as is in actual occupation of the Blacks