found the command letter from this office to Treasury (31 May 1850) requiring appeal to (and with the concurrence of the Treasury) as being proper exposition of the principle which should be cited when dealing with such Cases, and in proof of fact that on various occasions, the quit rent has been remitted both by our own Government and foreign & Colonial Governments. But the practice has not been altogether uniform.
... a memorandum of mine of 14 May 1850 when it was first mooted. The Duke of Newcastle in 1853 sent a copy of this letter to the Governor of Malta in answer to a similar application, I would suggest that the same should now be done.
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