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surrendered, while the Imperial Govert
mont might have imposed upon it the
cost of providing other sites or
buildings.
3. In some Colonies, if the value of
the surrendered properties should not
suffice to provide such now properties
as might be subsequently required, the
Colony would to the extent that its
moans permitted, bo called upon to
ke-up the deficiency; but whatover
might be the means of Colony, it
would obviously be only just that it
should contribute towards the cost of
the provision of new lands and build-
ings the full value of those surren-
dered to it.
ile this, to a certain extent,
would guard the Imperial Exchequer
against extra expenditure, it would
entail no additional expenditure on
Colonial revenues.
4. No object would apparently be
served by endeavouring to ascertain
the value of all lands provided by the
Colony since its original acquisition
by the Imperial Government, as suggest-