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more complete and explicit than its terms.
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The Colonial Government had been informed by Major General Brunker that the transfer could not be made until the instructions from the War Office had been received; which he intimated were then on their way, probably in less than four months. Subsequently, the Senior Military Officer & Commanding Royal Engineer writes to say that he thinks the formal transfer of the land may be made, the instructions having arrived, and it was not for the Colonial Government to question the power of Colonel De Butts to make the transfer. If he was exceeding his powers, that is a matter between him and his superiors, but occupying the position which he did, and in view of the War Office letter which accompanied his letter with the enclosed plan, a tracing of which accompanies the Surveyor General's Report: it would be subverting every rule that ought to guide the relations between different State Departments to upset the arrangement.
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band to and naturally assumed that the instructions which followed each other were the cause proposed by the Island's Representative eight years later.