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references to the land the possession of which is now disputed by the "Military Authorities, and I think I shall be able to show to Your Lordship that the Military Authorities are labouring under a complete misapprehension as regards their right to the land in dispute.
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I must apologise to Your Lordship for having to re-state a case which had already been exposed to have been long ago satisfactorily settled, but the advantage which has been taken by the Military Authorities of the absence of any special instructions to them to cede the land, such as had been intimated would be sent from the War Office in Despatch No. ... of the 19th March 1868, to reclaim the land which in ... it was agreed to hand over to the Colonial Government leaves no option in the matter. I would request Your Lordship to bear in mind that the argument of the Military Authorities resolves itself into this, that from a legal point of view the land still remains in the possession of its original transfer, inasmuch as the arrangement to carry out, though completed in intention, was never licensed.
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