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as
between the Colonial Government and the War Department, further than regards the reasonable ' compensation for improvements " provided for in the Duke of Newcastle's despatch W:15 the 27th of January, 18644
The principle laid
down in that despatch
of
seems
to me and to the Major-
General to be an
equitable
one, which it would be
well to adhere to, and it
is
wo
is therefore this principle. which I have adopted in the consideration of the~ various outstanding questions I shall refer to, and which I venture to suggest might
be now settled in the
mammer
I propose to recommend. 3. The plots particularly prominent in our discussion were those mentioned in the enclosure to Your Lordship's
P despatch N.88 of the 5th of "May, 1891, with the exception
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