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"a letter
I have the honor to transmit copy of from the late Attorney General dated 12th April 1865 by which it appears that premises leased to Her Majesty's Government are exempt from taxation both as owners and occupiers.
I have to (Signed) Wilkinson Shaw Major of Brigade Acting D.A.Q.M.G.
(copy)
The Attorney General's Office April 12th 1865.
I am in receipt of your communication of yesterday's date, wherein you request my opinion whether Buildings, such as Dwelling houses and Godowns, hired by you for the use of Her Majesty's Government, by the year, with three months notice of surrender, come under the category of Government Buildings, and are consequently exempt from the payment of rates and taxes on the part of occupier as well.
Henry Robinson loge &c. Assistant Commissary General.
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