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is the estimated expenditure of the Police,
Lighting and Water supply for the moving
year
b.
Hence it is evident that it is not
desirable, if it can
be avoided, to disturb
arrangements come to
as
above by any
subsequent exemptions as this
by Mr Ball in his private professional
capacity, when he
was Acting Attorney
General in 1862;
must be
AM
was
it
Acting Attorney
d that the Crown
ground
regarded as the occupier of such
a building. W. Ball's opinion however
is not
must reduce
the receipts below the estimated expenditure.
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The whole
question
has
now been
I again revived by the Major General Commanding the Troops, having directed a claim to be made for consumption of a house rented from the 23rd April last as Quarters for
Office as Co.
Captain Carey, whose Office
Commanding
the Artillery is in the Artillery barracks.
The Major General inclosed
18.
an
opinion favorable to such exemption, given
very
decisive
on the point as he
speaks
decisive on the point.
houses
of "dwelling house" and "godown" when hired by the Military, and to have made
a distinction
a house used merely
and
one used as
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he also does not
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distinction between
a dwelling house
and office.
which might be the
Parol,
9.
I referred the
case
therefore to
Mr Penderfole, the present Attorney General,
whose opinion will be found
in the
enclosed correspondence.
he appears
to have given
considerable attention to the
question.