Y
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· proposed to set aside.
I may be permitted
to remark, however, that the fact of the Colonial Government paying the instalments of the Military contribution at the market
rates of exchange, is quoted in that despatch
support of the contention
system
in su
that the same
should be adopted in respect of the Colonial_ Defence Contribution.
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The principle of ~
payment at the current. _ rate of the day
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Avas
further
upheld in Your Lordship's
despatches Nos 217 and 223 of 6th and 10th October last, and has recently been - observed, by specia i instructions from
i
the
Secretary of State for War, in a minor payment due from the local Military Department to the Colonial Government.
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