the Gov. of that Colony
the 5th Feby! & 29. Jany!
1844,
but I am not prepared
to insist
When a Condition
which has been
imposed
In
may
Separately
have been
Guaranteed) waived
by Sir Ihr Excrllency, –
and to which the
Government could with
how appeal without a
Certain inconsistency.
Moreover it appears to me that the drift of
Lord Stanley's instructions
in 1844 to the Govr. was not to
Grant Crown Lands to Public Institutions for the
purposes of Endowment,
nor to favour any proprietor so as to confine their Grants
advantage to the public
Revenue but
merely within such reasonable
limits
as should prevent them from obstructing the
progress of the Colony, avoiding establishing
a
precedent which if once
admitted
was sure (from
the ease with which lands
in early days of a Colony
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