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ing their
of the Colony, to the extent that its means will admit, to provide lands and buildings for its Garrison, it would be useless, even if it were practicable, to determine the extent of the interest which the Colony and the Imperial Government
respectively possess in those properties. Practically these properties
are
of no tangible value to the Colony until it obtain's full possession of them;
and when it obtains possession of them, the amount
they
would fetch in the market is the true
the value they possess for the Colony.
than the measure of
nistrand -
They
are of no value, in a
money point of view
to the Imperial Government, except in so far as their valuation on surrender may present extra charges falling
the
exchequer
when
they have to be exchanged for more appropriate
sites.
9.
The
letter f
expressions in paras: 4 and 6 of the the Officer Administering the Government
where