Lowenberg to Buckingham

I regret having again to trouble the Department over which Your
Grace presides, with further Communications relative to my property
in Victoria, V.I. known as Block Z.

I beg to refer your Grace to a Despatch from Mr Cardwell to
Governor Kennedy dated the 14th August 1865 and the enclosures
therewith, being the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown dated
the 26th July 1865. In January 1866 Mr Elliott of the Colonial
Office officially informed me in answer to a personal enquiry of
mine, that instructions would be sent to Governor Kennedy forthwith
strongly urging the propriety of settling this question in accordance
with the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown, but notwithstanding
the repeatedly expressed opinions of Mr Cardwell and His Grace the
Duke of Newcastle I have never been able to obtain any assurance
either of Mr Kennedy or Mr Seymour that the Crown had abandoned
their claim to this property or that my title would be undisturbed.

I have addressed to Mr Seymour a letter the Copy of which I
enclose together with his answer to that Communication.

I have now respectfully to request your Grace to refer Mr
Seymour to the Communications of Your Grace's predecessors in office
addressed to the Governors of this Colony, and desire your Graces
intervention to set this matter
at rest once for all.