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land by the Military occupation of which, the Colonial Government had suffered an increasing annual loss, had been restored to it, being no longer suitable for the purpose for which it was originally granted.
I am at a loss to understand how the Imperial Government could justly claim the unearned increment acquired by the useless ground, being incorporated in the City. And the sale (for that is what it practically amounts to) to the Colony of land originally freely bestowed by the Colony on the War Department, irrespective of any immediate requirements by that Department, would appear to be a scarcely legitimate way of improving the Imperial finances.
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