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Major-General Commanding. the Troops, and the principal Officers of the Royal Engineers,
of the Army Medical
and
Department
are now,
I
believe, for the first time,
unanimous in their consent to the removal of this restriction; and I have
confidence therefore that_ with the fuller Knowledge of the circumstances afforded by this correspondence. Her Majesty's Government will
Now
now accord their sanction to a
measure,
which I respectfully
submit as one.
of simple
justice.
//.
I
must not omit to
mention that on
two occasion
occasions
the War Department has relinquished every right
connection with this land
in
which it had previously claimed. In the War office Despatch, 19th of March, 1868, the Earl of Longford addressing : the Under Secretary of State for
the