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which expenditure the Colony is at,
only asked to contribute £100,000 or
present 1/4 th of
the whole, Mr Stanhope considers that the
claim to have lightened
Government may
the burden on Colonial revenues to the
Utmost extent compatible with a reasonable regard for the interests of the Imperial Exchequer : but this aspect of the question: has already been fully dealt with in recent Correspondence, and need not be further dwelt. upon.
13. The Officer Administering
the Government
states that by fortuitous circumstances the
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War Department has been allotted a vast
the very
heart of
: area of land in the - best quarter of this City, thereby causing
" immense loss of revenue and much inconvenience
to the Colony and their endeavour should
be
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